Malaysia legislation
Section 2
Section 2
Interpretation
“conservation” means the various measures taken for the protection, preservation and necessary repair of library material and for their maintenance under conditions designed to prevent and retard their physical deterioration;
“Director General” means the Director General of the National
Library appointed under the National Library Act 1972 [Act 80];
“library material” means any form of printed, graphic, audio, electronic or other media, on or in which information is written, recorded, stored, displayed or produced and is categorized for
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purposes of this Act into—
(a)
printed library material including books, serials, maps, charts and posters;
(b)
non-printed library material including cinematograph films, microforms, phonorecords, video and audio recordings and other electronic media;
“Minister” means the Minister charged with the responsibility for libraries;
“prescribed” means prescribed by regulations made under the provisions of this Act;
“printed” means any representation of characters on any material by any method of mechanical impression;
“published” means material which has been produced and made available to the public to whom it may be sold or distributed free of charge and for the purpose of section 4, “published” shall include—
(a)
publication of any second or subsequent edition of a library material if that edition contains additions or alterations to the original content of such material; and
(b)
subsequent publication of such material in any other form or format.
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