Public Libraries Act 1855

Public Libraries Act 1855^[1]
Act of Parliament
	Parliament of the United Kingdom
Long title	An Act for further promoting the Establishment of Free Public Libraries in Municipal Towns, and for extending it to Towns governed under Local Improvement Acts, and to Parishes.
Citation	18 & 19 Vict. c. 70
Territorial extent	England and Wales
Dates
Royal assent	30 July 1855
Other legislation
Amended by	Public Libraries Amendment Act 1866;

The Public Libraries Act 1855 (18 & 19 Vict. c. 70) amended the Public Libraries Act 1850.

The provisions were:^[2]

to extend the right to adopt public library legislation beyond municipal boroughs to parish vestries
to reduce the population requirement from 10,000 to 5,000
to allow parishes to group together to meet the population requirement
to explicitly include the Metropolis
to allow adoption if a two thirds majority were in favour at a public meeting

References

^ This short title was conferred on this act by section 2 of this act.
^ Encyclopedia of Library and Information Science: Volume 33 - The Wellesley College Library to Zoological Literature: A Review