The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations 2013

Entitlement to delivery: off line work

15.—(1) The British Library Board is entitled to delivery under section 1 of the Act of a copy of every work published off line.

(2) A copy must be delivered to the British Library Board within one month beginning with the day of publication.

(3) Each deposit library other than the British Library Board is entitled to delivery under section 1 of the Act of a copy of any work published off line which it requests.

(4) The following provisions apply to a request made under paragraph (3)—

(a) it must be in writing;

(b) it must be made—

(i) within 12 months beginning with the day of publication, or

(ii) (in relation to a work published off line that is subject to the exemption in regulation 4) if later, by 30 April 2014;

(c) it may be made before publication;

(d) it may relate to all future numbers or parts of an encyclopaedia, newspaper, magazine or other non-print work.

(5) The copy must be delivered within one month beginning with—

(a) the day of publication, or

(b) if later, the day on which the request is received.

(6) The copy delivered pursuant to paragraphs (1) and (3) must be of a quality most suitable for the preservation of the work.

(7) The quality most suitable for the preservation of the work may be as agreed between the publisher and the deposit library or, in the absence of agreement, a quality which the publisher decides.

(8) Each deposit library must give a receipt in writing for the copies of work published off line that it receives.