The Public Lending Right Scheme 1982 (Commencement of Variations) Order 1988

13.  Article 38 of the Scheme shall be varied:—

(a) by substituting for paragraph (1) the following paragraph—

“(1) Such local library authorities as the Registrar may require shall, not later than 30th September in each year, furnish to the Registrar lists, as at 31st March of that year, of all their ordinary and principal service points and, in the case of local library authorities in the Counties of Dyfed and Gwynedd and the Districts of Colwyn and Glyndwr in the County of Clwyd, of all their mobile library service points. The Registrar shall, not later than 31st December of that year, designate in accordance with paragraph (6) those service points which are to be operative sampling points as from the beginning of the ensuing sampling year.”;

(b) by substituting for paragraph (2) the following paragraph—

“(2) The Registrar shall so exercise his powers under this article as to secure, subject to paragraph (4), that—

(a) at all times there shall be 30 operative sampling points comprising—

(i) 5 points falling within each of Groups A and D in Schedule 2,

(ii) 4 points falling within each of Groups B, C and E in Schedule 2,

(iii) 3 points falling within each of Groups F and G in Schedule 2, and

(iv) 2 points falling within Group H in Schedule 2;

(b) at all times the operative sampling points falling within each Group in Schedule 2 shall include, subject to paragraph (3), a principal service point and an ordinary service point;

(c) at all times one of the 3 operative sampling points falling within Group F in Schedule 2 shall be within the County of Dyfed or that of Gwynedd or the Districts of Colwyn or Glyndwr in the County of Clwyd;

(d) at all times one of the 3 operative sampling points falling within Group G in Schedule 2 shall be outside the Metropolitan Districts of Edinburgh and Glasgow;

(e) no operative sampling point other than a point falling within the County of Dyfed or that of Gwynedd or the Districts of Colwyn or Glyndwr in the County of Clywd shall be a mobile library service point;

(f) with effect from the beginning of each sampling year at least 10 out of the 30 operative sampling points shall be replaced by new such points; and

(g) no service point shall remain an operative sampling point for a continous period of more than four years.”.