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Under section 19 of the Public Libraries and Museums Act 1964 local authorities may make byelaws regulating the use of library facilities run by each authority under the Act.
First published during the 2016 to 2019 May Conservative government
These tools provide data to help local authorities' planning
This is the guide to the methodology behind the production of the Creative Industries Economic Estimates official statistics by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport.
Read an example heritage management plan and get detailed guidance on how to prepare one for conditional exemption.
Information on makerspaces in libraries
How sample data is collected from libraries to calculate public lending right payments
The Department for Culture Media and Sport has published the Treasure Act 1996 Code of Practice (Revised) England and Wales.
This document contains the following information: Film co-production agreement between the UK and South Africa.
This guidance is intended to help councils in England and others in considering library service provision as a statutory service.
Sector-led benchmarking framework for library services
New draft legislation to prevent ticket touts from using software bots to exploit consumers buying tickets to events.
Following the consultation on the text of a revised Ecclesiastical Exemption (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Order 2010 due to come…
Advice for society lotteries, local authority lotteries and external lottery managers about the requirements relating to the distribution of lottery proceeds
DCMS guidance to help publishers and deposit libraries to understand their obligations under the new legal deposit regulations.
This consultation has now ended. The consultation period was 8 March - 1 June 2007
This treaty was presented to Parliament in January 2024.
This campaign encourages communities to nominate those locally important historic buildings which they value most for inclusion in their local authority’s local list.
This treaty was presented to Parliament in October 2017.
This treaty was presented to Parliament in July 2016.
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