The Public Lending Right Scheme 1982 (Commencement of Variation) (No. 2) Order 2005

Statutory Instruments

2005 No. 3351

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The Public Lending Right Scheme 1982 (Commencement of Variation) (No. 2) Order 2005

Made

1st December 2005

Laid before Parliament

6th December 2005

Coming into force

29th December 2005

The Public Lending Right Scheme 1982(1) (“the Scheme”) was brought into force on 14th June 1982;

The Scheme has been varied(2);

The Secretary of State, after consultation with the representatives of authors and library authorities and with others who appear likely to be affected, has further varied the Scheme;

Accordingly, the Secretary of State makes the following Order in exercise of the powers conferred by section 3(7) of the Public Lending Right Act 1979(3):

Citation

1.  This Order may be cited as The Public Lending Right Scheme 1982 (Commencement of Variation)(No.2) Order 2005.

Commencement of variation

2.  The variation of the Public Lending Right Scheme 1982 made by the Secretary of State on 1st December 2005, whereby paragraph 1(a) of Article 46 was varied by substituting “5.57p” for “5.26p”, shall come into force on 29th December 2005.

David Lammy

Minister for Culture

Department for Culture, Media and Sport

1st December 2005

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order brings into force on 29th December 2005 a variation to the Public Lending Right Scheme 1982 made by the Secretary of State on 1st December 2005.

The Public Lending Right Scheme provides for payments to be made to authors based on the number of times their books are lent out by public libraries. The effect of the variation is to increase the rate per loan as set out in article 46(1)(a) of the Scheme from 5.26p to 5.57p. The rate per loan is the sum attributable to each qualifying loan for the purpose of calculating the amount payable in respect of loans of a particular book by public libraries.

(1)

The Scheme was initially set out in the Appendix to S.I. 1982/719 and is now set out in Appendix 2 to S.I. 1990/2360.

(2)

Other variations to the Scheme have been set out in S.I. 1991/2618, S.I. 1996/1338, S.I. 1997/1576, S.I. 1998/1218, S.I. 1999/420, S.I. 2000/933, S.I. 2003/839, S.I. 2003/3045, S.I. 2004/1258, S.I. 2004/3128 and S.I. 2005/1519.

(3)

1979 c. 10; the functions under the Act were transferred to the Secretary of State by virtue of article 3(1) of, and Schedule 1 to, the Transfer of Functions (National Heritage) Order 1992 (S.I. 1992/1311).