5Registration of borrowers

5 Registration of borrowers

5 Registration of borrowers

(1) Only a person who is registered as a borrower at a local library may take library material away from that library.

(2) The procedure for registration, including the term of registration, is to be determined by the local authority.

(3) The local authority may refuse to register a person as a borrower at a library or may cancel a person’s registration as a borrower:

(a) if the person is not a resident of the local government area of the local authority or of a local government area in relation to which the local authority has entered into an arrangement referred to in section 10 (3) of the Act, or

(b) if the person has failed to comply with the library rules for the library, or

(c) if, in the opinion of the local authority, the person is not a fit and proper person to be registered.