New Zealand Legislation: Regulations
Regulations are laws made under Acts
(1) The chief executive must do a triennial survey of the National Library and 39 other New Zealand libraries to find out how many copies they hold of books by New Zealand authors who have entered their names in the register in the year of the triennial survey.
(2) In the first year after the triennial survey, the chief executive must do an updating survey of the National Library and the 39 other New Zealand libraries to find out—
(a) how many copies they hold of books that are by New Zealand authors who—
(i) had not entered their names in the register at the time of the triennial survey; and
(ii) have entered their names in the register in the year of the current updating survey; and
(b) how many copies they hold, in the year of the current updating survey, of books by New Zealand authors who have requested recounts.
(3) In the second year after the triennial survey, the chief executive must do an updating survey of the National Library and the 39 other New Zealand libraries to find out—
(a) how many copies they hold of books that are by New Zealand authors who—
(i) had not entered their names in the register at the time of the triennial survey; and
(ii) had not entered their names in the register at the time of the previous year's updating survey; and
(iii) have entered their names in the register in the year of the current updating survey; and
(b) how many copies they hold, in the year of the current updating survey, of books by New Zealand authors who have requested recounts.
(4) The updating surveys are also to find out,—
(a) in the first year after the triennial survey, how many copies the National Library and the 39 other New Zealand libraries hold of books that—
(i) are by New Zealand authors who had entered their names in the register at the time of the triennial survey and have entered their names in the register in the year of the current updating survey; and
(ii) were not counted in the triennial survey; and
(b) in the second year after the triennial survey, how many copies the National Library and the 39 other New Zealand libraries hold of books that—
(i) are by New Zealand authors who had entered their names in the register at the time of the triennial survey and have entered their names in the register in the year of the current updating survey; and
(ii) were not counted in the triennial survey; and
(iii) were not counted in the previous year's updating survey.
(5) The result of the triennial survey is used to estimate the number of copies held in New Zealand libraries of each book by each individual New Zealand author described in subclause (1).
(6) The result of each updating survey is used to estimate the number of copies held in New Zealand libraries of each book by each individual New Zealand author described in subclause (2) or (3).
(7) The result of the triennial survey plus the result of the relevant updating survey is used to estimate the number of copies held in New Zealand libraries of each book by each individual New Zealand author described in subclause (4).
(8) For the purposes of each triennial survey and the next 2 updating surveys, the 39 New Zealand libraries surveyed must be those named by the Government Statistician and must be the same 39 libraries for the 3 surveys.
(9) For the purposes of the estimations referred to in subclauses (5) to (7), the surveyed libraries must be given the statistical weightings provided by the Government Statistician.
(10) The following provisions apply for the purpose of determining how a book by a New Zealand author is counted in a survey:
(a) if a book is published in more than one volume because of its size, it is counted as a single book:
(b) if a book is published in more than one volume because each volume contains a different component, each volume is counted as a separate book:
(c) if a book is donated to a New Zealand library, it is counted only if the chief librarian of the recipient library certifies in writing or electronically to the chief executive that—
(i) the book is one that the library would have bought; and
(ii) the number of copies donated is the number that the library would have bought.
