In this Act the following expressions have the meanings hereby respectively assigned to them:—

• “library material” means any library material the purchase of which is authorised by the third paragraph of section twenty-one of the principal Act;

• “non-statutory library authority” means a body, not trading for profit, which provides library services otherwise than in the exercise of statutory powers;

• “the principal Act” means the M1Public Libraries Consolidation (Scotland) Act 1887;

• F1“statutory library authority” means a library authority as defined in section 2 of the M2Public Libraries Consolidation (Scotland) Act 1887 or any body authorised by any other enactment (including any enactment contained in a local Act) to provide library services.

This Act may be cited as the Public Libraries (Scotland) Act 1955, and the Public Libraries (Scotland) Acts 1887 to 1920, and this Act may be cited together as the Public Libraries (Scotland) Acts 1887 to 1955.

This Act shall extend to Scotland only.