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===Sri Lanka=== First legal deposit of Sri Lanka was established in 1885 at the National Museum Library. The law of the country (according to National Archives Act No. 48 of 1973).<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.commonlii.org/lk/legis/num_act/nal48o1973234/ |date=30 April 2005 |website= Sri Lanka Consolidated Acts|access-date=25 October 2016|title=National Archives Law (No. 48 of 1973)}}</ref> requires that a copy of every document printed in the country has to be deposited in the legal deposit. There are five legal deposits in the country. These are the [[National Archives of Sri Lanka]], the [[National Library of Sri Lanka]], the [[National Museum Library]], the [[University of Peradeniya library]] and the [[Library, University of Ruhuna]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.lib.ruh.ac.lk/LD/?nav=legal|title=Legal deposit |date=30 April 2005 |website=University of Ruhuna |access-date=25 October 2016}}</ref>
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