Section 15

The author or publisher of every non-printed library resource shall also deliver to the State Library such number of copies as are prescribed in the First Schedule, the best copies of the library resource as are prescribed in Second Schedule, where a written request is made for such library resource within one year of their publication:

Provided that where payment is demanded by the author or publisher, the board shall pay the retail price of the library resource so delivered.

Any author or publisher who fails to deliver any library resource 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 author or publisher delivers the library resource which he has failed to deliver, where it is still available, in its original form, but where it is no longer available, in its original form, the reproduction thereof.

Without prejudice to subsection (4), an author or publisher who fails to deliver any library resource which is required under this section, shall pay the State Library, upon demand, the cost incurred by the State Library in the reproduction of the library resource.

Any cost required to be paid to the State Library under this section shall be a debt due to the State Library and shall be recoverable by any of the ways and means in force for the time being

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for the recovery of debts due to the State Library. Such recovery shall be made in the name of the Board.

Power of exemption