Hong Kong Regulations

LIBRARIES REGULATION - SECT 19

Library material borrowed to be returned within 14 days

(Past version on 30/06/1997).

(1) All library material borrowed from a library shall, unless the librarian
in any particular case gives permission to retain the library material for a
longer period, be returned to the library within 14 days after the day upon
which it was borrowed. (L.N. 248 of 1983; L.N. 235 of 1991)

(2) Where any library material is returned under subsection (1), it may be
borrowed by the borrower for a further period of 14 days unless it is required
by another borrower. (L.N. 248 of 1983)

(3) For the purposes of computing any period referred to in subsection (1) or
(2)-

   (a)  section 71(1)(b) and (c) of the Interpretation and General 
        Clauses Ordinance ( Cap 1) shall not apply;

   (b)  where the last day of any such period is a day on which the library is
        closed to the public for the whole of that day, the period shall be
        extended to the next day on which the library is not closed to the
        public for the whole of that day; and

   (c)  a library shall be deemed to be closed to the public for the whole of
        a day on which it is closed to the public for any period by reason of
        there being in force a gale warning within the meaning of the
        Judicial Proceedings (Adjournment During Gale Warnings) Ordinance (
        Cap  62). (L.N. 231 of 1979)

(78 of 1999 s. 7)