B-1.2, r. 1 - Regulation respecting the legal deposit of published documents other than films

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chapter B-1.2, r. 1
Regulation respecting the legal deposit of published documents other than films
Act respecting Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec
(chapter B-1.2, s. 20.10).
O.C. 359-92; O.C. 975-2009, s. 1.
1. The classes of published documents for which the deposit of a single copy of one edition of the document is required are the following:
(1)  maps and charts, including charts of the planets and the skies;
(2)  prints;
(3)  artists’ books;
(4)  digital documents.
O.C. 359-92, s. 1; O.C. 975-2009, s. 2; O.C. 713-2022, s. 1.
2. A publisher shall deposit 1 copy of a published document where the retail price of the document falls between $249.99 and $5,001.01, in accordance with paragraph 2 of section 20.5 of the Act respecting Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec (chapter B-1.2).
For the purposes of this section, the retail price of a periodical is the retail price of each number.
O.C. 359-92, s. 2; O.C. 975-2009, s. 3.
3. The classes of published documents exempted from the obligation of deposit provided for in section 20.1 of the Act are the following:
(1)  bills smaller than 1,300 cm2 or larger than 15,800 cm2;
(2)  diaries;
(3)  colouring books;
(4)  commercial advertisements or catalogues;
(5)  telephone directories of towns;
(6)  bulletins of local associations containing only transient news without commentary, lists of members or minutes;
(7)  calendars;
(8)  greeting cards;
(9)  press releases;
(10)  (paragraph revoked);
(11)  slides;
(12)  documents without words or pictures;
(13)  packaging;
(14)  financial statements;
(15)  forms;
(16)  guides accompanying documents not subject to deposit;
(17)  timetables;
(18)  circulars;
(19)  educational kits, unless they are documents or accompany documents subject to deposit;
(20)  menus;
(21)  crossword puzzles, word squares or any similar document;
(22)  monographs of less than 5 pages not forming part of a series;
(23)  patterns or models;
(24)  photographs;
(25)  programs of activities except show programs;
(26)  prospectuses;
(27)  reprintings of a document already deposited;
(28)  reproductions, by photographic or photomechanical process, other than commercial reproductions of a work of art;
(29)  parish leaflets;
(30)  bookmarks;
(31)  rate or fee schedules;
(32)  tests or questionnaires or opinion polls;
(33)  offprints without title pages or separate pagination;
(34)  students’ works, reports or theses;
(35)  school yearbooks;
(36)  directories of students or employees;
(37)  board games;
(38)  microforms;
(39)  data banks, databases and raw data;
(40)  websites, except those of bodies deemed public bodies referred to in paragraphs 1 to 3 of the Schedule to the Archives Act (chapter A-21.1) and those of the media covering Québec national news.
O.C. 359-92, s. 3; O.C. 975-2009, s. 4; O.C. 713-2022, s. 2.
4. Any published document with a retail price exceeding $5,000 shall be exempt from the obligation of deposit mentioned in section 20.1 of the Act.
O.C. 359-92, s. 4.
5. A publisher, in the case of a document mentioned in section 4, shall send in writing the following particulars to Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec within 7 days following the date on which the document is published:
(1)  the name of the author of the document;
(2)  the title of the document;
(3)  the place of publication of the document;
(4)  the name of the publisher of the document;
(5)  the retail price of the document;
(6)  the press run of the document.
O.C. 359-92, s. 5.
6. A publisher shall enter on a published document that must be deposited with the library or on the container of such document the statement: “Legal deposit, Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec”, and the year in which the document was published.
O.C. 359-92, s. 6.
7. Sections 1 to 6 also apply to any person or body assuming the responsibility of producing a published document.
O.C. 359-92, s. 7.
8. Contravention of section 1 or 6 is punishable under the terms of section 20.11 of the Act.
O.C. 359-92, s. 8.
9. Contravention of section 5 is punishable under the terms of section 20.12 of the Act.
O.C. 359-92, s. 9.
10. (Omitted).
O.C. 359-92, s. 10.
11. (Omitted).
O.C. 359-92, s. 11.
REFERENCES
O.C. 359-92, 1992 G.O. 2, 1800
S.Q. 2004, c. 25, s. 70
O.C. 975-2009, 2009 G.O. 2, 3273
O.C. 713-2022, 2022 G.O. 2, 1333