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Public Libraries (Scotland) Act 1920

United Kingdom legislation

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 16, 2026
Entity authorityQ7257448 ↗
Source-derived summary

The Public Libraries (Scotland) Act 1920 (10 & 11 Geo. 5. c. 45) was an act in the United Kingdom. It became law on 16 August 1920.

It amended the Public Libraries Consolidation (Scotland) Act 1887 (50 & 51 Vict. c. 42), providing that with effect from 15 May 1920, the rating limit under section 8 of that act was increased from 1d to 3d.

See also

Public Libraries Act

List of libraries in Scotland

Notes

References

Oliver & Boyd's new Edinburgh almanac and national repository for the year 1921. p228

External links

Text of the Public Libraries (Scotland) Act 1920 as originally enacted or made within the United Kingdom, from legislation.gov.uk.

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“Public Libraries (Scotland) Act 1920” enters the record as united Kingdom legislation. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Public, Libraries and Scotland can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1920, 1887, 1921—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1920-01-01. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Public, Libraries and Scotland.
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“Public Libraries (Scotland) Act 1920” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Public, Libraries and Scotland provides the most credible route into that argument.

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This entry incorporates text from “Public Libraries (Scotland) Act 1920” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.