Part 2Trading income

Chapter 18Post-cessation receipts

Sums that are not post-cessation receipts

253Lump sums paid to personal representatives for copyright etc.

(1)

A lump sum which is paid to the personal representatives of the author of a literary, dramatic, musical or artistic work as consideration for the assignment by them of—

(a)

the copyright in the work, or

(b)

the public lending right in the work,

is not a post-cessation receipt.

(2)

A lump sum which is paid to the personal representatives of the designer of a design in which design right subsists as consideration for the assignment by them of that right is not a post-cessation receipt.

(3)

For the purposes of this section it does not matter whether the whole or a part of the right is assigned.