Section 4

The publisher of every non-printed library material shall also deliver to the Director General such number of copies as are prescribed in Schedule 1, the best copies of the library material as are prescribed in Schedule 2, if written request is made for such library material within one year of their publication, provided that the Director General shall pay for the cost of the library material so delivered, if payment is demanded by the publisher.

A publisher who fails to deliver any library material which he is required to deliver under this section shall be guilty of an offence and shall, on conviction, be liable to a fine not exceeding three thousand ringgit.

On conviction made under subsection (3), the court shall also make an order that the publisher delivers the library material which he has failed to deliver, if it is still available in its original form or a reproduction of the library material if it is no longer available in its original form.

Without prejudice to the provision of subsection (4), a publisher who fails to deliver any library material which he is required to deliver under this section, shall pay to the Director

General, upon demand, the cost incurred by the Director General

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in the reproduction of the library material.

Any cost required to be paid to the Director General under this section shall be a debt due to the Government and shall be recoverable by any of the ways and means in force for the time being for the recovery of debts due to the Government.

Conservation, registration of library material, national bibliography and statistical record