Sri Lanka Consolidated Acts Sri Lanka Consolidated ActsInterpretation
| 34. In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires- "Chairman" means the Chairman of the Board appointed under this Act; "Library and Documentation Materials" mean any form, whether written, printed, graphic, electronic, magnetic, optical or otherwise, in or on which information or literary, creative or artistic ideas, are or may be recorded, displayed, stored or reproduced, and include manuscripts, typescripts, books, newspapers, periodicals, maps, microforms, music, photographs, prints, drawings, cinematograph films, sound recordings and video recordings and the expressions "Library and Documentation resources" and "Library and Documentation services" shall be construed accordingly ; "Local Authority" means a Municipal Council constituted under the Municipal Councils Ordinance (Chapter 252), Urban Council constituted under the Urban Councils Ordinance .(Chapter 255) or a Pradeshiya Sabha constituted under the Pradeshiya Sabhas Act, No. 15 of 1987 and includes any authority created and established by or under any written law to exercise, perform or discharge powers, duties and functions corresponding to or similar to the powers, duties and functions exercised, performed or discharged by any such Council or Sabha; "Minister" means the Minister appointed under Article 44 of the Constitution, to whom the subject of Education is assigned; "National Library and Documentation Centre" means the National Library and Documentation Centre established under this Act; "Provincial Council" means a Provincial Council established by Chapter XVIIA of the Constitution ; and "Repealed Act" means the Ceylon National Library Services Board Act, No. 17 of 1970. |