Statutory Instruments
2020 No. 28
Libraries
The Public Lending Right Scheme 1982 (Commencement of Variation) Order 2020
Made
9th January 2020
Laid before Parliament
14th January 2020
Coming into force
4th February 2020
The Public Lending Right Scheme 1982( 1 ) (āthe Schemeā) 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 of others who appear likely to be affected, has further varied the Scheme;
Citation
1. This Order may be cited as the Public Lending Right Scheme 1982 (Commencement of Variation) Order 2020.
Commencement of Variation
2. The variation of the Public Lending Right Scheme 1982 whereby article 46(1)(a) was varied by substituting ā9.03pā for ā8.52pā, comes into force on 4th February 2020.
Helen Whately
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State
Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
9th January 2020
The Scheme is set out in the Appendix to the Public Lending Right Scheme 1982 (Commencement) Order 1982 ( S.I. 1982/719 ).
Variations to the Scheme have been brought into force by subsequent Orders. Appendix 2 of S.I. 1990/2360 sets out the Scheme as varied by amendments made on 26 November 1990. Further variations of the kind brought into force by this Order have since been made by S.I. 1992/3049 , 1993/3049 , 1996/3237 , 1999/3304 , 2000/3319 , 2001/3984 , 2002/3123 , 2003/3045 , 2004/3128 , 2005/3551 , 2006/3294 , 2009/3259 , 2011/54 , 2012/63 , 2012/3123 , 2015/7 , 2016/15 , 2017/7 , 2018/17 and 2018/1220 .
1979 c.10 . There are amendments to this Act including SI 2018/691 which extends the public lending right to include remote loans of e-books and audio-books from public libraries. No other amendments are relevant to this Order.
The functions under section 3(7) of the Public Lending Right Act 1979 were originally vested in the Secretary of State and, after a series of transfer of functions orders ( S.I. 1979/907 , 1981/207 , 1983/879 , 1984/1814 and 1986/600 ), they were transferred back 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 ).