Singapore legislation

Clause 2

of National Library Board (Amendment) Bill

Clause 2

Amendment of section 2

Section 2 of the National Library Board Act (called in this Act the principal Act) is amended —

(a)

by deleting the definition of “library materials” and substituting the following definition:“ “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;”;

(b)

by inserting, immediately after the definition of “National Heritage Board”, the following definition:“ “online material” means any writing, visual image, video, sound recording or data accessible to the public generally, through the Internet on a website;”; (c)by inserting, immediately after the word “books” in the definition of “printed”, the words “or other materials”;

(d)

by deleting the definition of “published in Singapore” and substituting the following definition:“ “published in Singapore”, in relation to library materials other than online material, means produced and released in Singapore for sale or public distribution;”; and

(e)

by deleting the full‑stop at the end of the definition of “publisher” and substituting a semi‑colon, and by inserting immediately thereafter the following definition:“ “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.”.