Revised Laws of Saint Lucia (2021)

70.   Replacing copies of works

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    (1)   The librarian of a prescribed library or archive may, if the prescribed conditions are complied with, make a copy from any item in the permanent collection of the library or archive for the purpose of—

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      (a)     preserving or replacing the item by placing the copy in such permanent collection in addition to or in place of the item;

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      (b)     replacing in the permanent collection of another prescribed library or archive an item which has been lost, destroyed or damaged,

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    without infringing the copyright in any literary, dramatic or musical work, in any illustrations accompanying such a work or, in the case of a published edition, in the typographical arrangement.

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    (2)   The prescribed conditions shall include provisions restricting the making of copies to cases where it is not reasonably practicable to purchase a copy of the item in question for the purpose.