To enable the usage of the all printed work for study purposes and usage and their saving as cultural values, every publishing organisation or agency is obliged to deliver to the Yugoslav Bibliographical Institute in Belgrade and to the National University Library in pristine 15 free sample editions with their expenses (obligatory editions)

Military units and institutions that publish work have to deliver the obligatory editions conform to federative dispositions.

The publisher is obliged to deliver the printed work although not edited by the publishing organisation or it is bought abroad.

Printed work of reserving character do not follow the obligatory deliverance but the organ, self-governing joint labour organisation and other organisation that have given the order to publish are obliged to save at least two sample editions of this printed work.

With printed work, according to this paragraph, is understood all publications, books, brochures, artistic reproductions, musical works, magazines, geographical maps, all kinds of atlases, program catalogues, post cars etc and other supplements like tables, graphics, forms multiplied by all kinds of technical equipment, as well as gramophone disks.

If in publishing take part many organisations, the obligatory editions are send by the one marked I the publication. If in the publication are more publishers the obligatory edition is delivered by the one that had completed the edition.

If the printed work is published in many languages or alphabets or republished the obligatory editions have to be delivered in every language, alphabet or every time it is reedited.

New edition is considered every old edition that is distributed with a different covering page, title or completed editions with new photographs or additional text.

The obligatory editions of the printed work are delivered immediately after being published the first exemplars. They have to be in good condition for distributing.

Official publication, in accordance with this law, is considered everything that is published by the government organ as its official publication.

Except the obligation in the first article of this law, the editors of the official publications have to deliver with their own expenses to the Yugoslav Bibliographical Institute in Belgrade for international exchange purposes 15 exemplars of everything published and has a character of official publication. The Yugoslav Bibliographical Institute determines the number of the exemplars to be delivered.

The official publications with the reserving character are ruled out from the first paragraph of this article.

The National University Library of Kosova from the number of the exemplars delivered to her is obliged to send one to each central libraries of Socialist Republics and one to central library of Socialist Autonomous Province of Vojvodina. It keeps the other exemplars for its own needs.

The National University library of Kosova can determine the number of the obligatory exemplars to be send to other libraries abroad for exchange purposes.

The publishing organisations in the Socialist Autonomous Province of Kosova are obliged to send one exemplar of books, magazines, newspapers, brochures, and gramophone disks to the regional organ of the competent administration for cultural issues to follow the publishing activities and to supervise the legal procedures.

The main libraries in the Socialist Autonomous Province of Kosova have to provide at least an exemplar of books, magazines, brochures and everything that is published in the territory of Kosova, if this law does not determine otherwise, with their own expenses.

Two exemplars of official and trade forms, advertisements, announcements, placards and private communications should be delivered only to the National University library of Kosova

The publishing agencies should send to the Yugoslav Bibliographical Institute a monthly report of everything they published every month. The copy of this monthly report is send to National University Library and to the regional administration organ competent for cultural matters.

Military units and the institutions that publish they works send the monthly report according to the first paragraph of this article conform to federative dispositions.

The head of the regional organ of the competent administration for cultural matters adopts the more detailed dispositions for the information that this report should contain.

The regional administration organ competent for cultural matters supervises the legal procedure of the disposition appliance of this law.

With 50000 dinars fine is sentenced the publishing organisation or the person who does not deliver the published works:

According to the paragraph of this article, the responsible person of the particular publishing organisation is given a 5000 dinars fine.

The head of the regional administration organ competent for cultural matters determines the number of copies and the way the gramophone disks are to be sent.

The day this law is enforced the former law on deliverance of printed material to the certain institutions (official notebook of the Socialist Autonomous Province of Kosova) is ruled out.

This law is enforced 8 days after is promulgated in the official newsletter of the Socialist Autonomous Province of Kosova.