National Library Board Act 1995

National Library Board Act 1995 2020 REVISED EDITION This revised edition incorporates all amendments up to and including 1 December 2021 and comes into operation on 31 December 2021 An Act to establish and incorporate the National Library Board, to transfer to it the National Library and for matters connected therewith. [1 September 1995] PART 1 PRELIMINARY Short title 1. This Act is the National Library Board Act 1995. Interpretation 2. In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires — “Board” means the National Library Board established under section 3; “Chairperson” means the Chairperson of the Board and includes any temporary Chairperson of the Board; “chief executive officer” means the chief executive officer of the Board and includes any person acting in that capacity; “Deputy Chairperson” means the Deputy Chairperson of the Board and includes any temporary Deputy Chairperson of the Board; “Fund” means the National Library Board Endowment Fund established under section 34; “library information service” means any information service provided and managed in conjunction with a library or library service; “library materials” means — (a) any book, periodical, newspaper, pamphlet, musical score, map, chart, plan, picture, photograph or matter, in printed or electronic form; (b) any visual image (including a computer‑generated image) or sound, or aggregate of visual images or sounds or both, or data — (i) embodied in or recorded on a film (including a microfilm or a microfiche), negative, tape, disc, sound track or other device or thing, so as to be capable (with or without the aid of some other equipment) of being reproduced from it; or (ii) transmitted by electronic means; and (c) any online material made available on a Singapore website; “member” means a member of the Board; “National Archives” means the National Archives of Singapore transferred by the Statutes (Miscellaneous Amendments) (No. 2) Act 2012 to the Board and administered in accordance with Part 2A; “National Heritage Board” means the National Heritage Board established under section 3 of the National Heritage Board Act 1993; “online material” means any writing, visual image, video, sound recording or data accessible to the public generally, through the Internet on a website; “printed”, in relation to books or other materials, means produced by printing, lithography, duplication or any other like process, and “printer” has a corresponding meaning; “public archives” means those public records that — (a) are more than 25 years old; (b) are specified by the Board as being of national or historical significance; and (c) have been transferred to the Board or to any other place that the Board may determine; “public office” means any department, office, institution, agency, commission, board, local authority or statutory body or any other office of the Government or branch or subdivision thereof, and any other body that the President may, by notification in the Gazette, declare to be a public office; “public records” means papers, documents, records, registers, printed materials, books, maps, plans, drawings, photographs, microforms, videotapes, films, machine‑readable and electronic records, sound recordings and other forms of records of any kind, that are produced or received by any public office in the transaction of official business, or by any officer in the course of his or her official duties, and includes public archives; “publicly funded libraries” means all libraries owned by the Government or any statutory body and such other libraries which are, directly or indirectly, funded by the Government (whether fully or partially) as the Board may determine; “published in Singapore”, in relation to library materials other than online material, means produced and released in Singapore for sale or public distribution; “publisher” means any person who arranges for any library material to be published in Singapore; “Singapore website” means — (a) any website, the country code top level domain of which is associated with Singapore; or (b) any prescribed website or electronic service associated with Singapore. [30/2018]