Article 2

Appendix

Variations in the Public Lending Right Scheme 1982 relating to remote e-lending of books coming into force in Northern Ireland on 1st July 2021

1.  In article 36 (special definitions)—

(a) for the definition of “loans”, substitute—

““loans” means loans whereby books are made available to a member of the public from a service point for use away from that service point for a limited time (including by being communicated by means of electronic transmission to a place other than a service point) and includes books not normally held at that service point; and “lent out” is to be read accordingly;”; and

(b) for the definition of “service point”, substitute—

““service point” means a place or website from which books comprised in a library are made available to the public.”.

2.  In article 42 (method of determining the number of notional loans), in paragraph (3), sub-paragraph (b), after “record loans of a” insert the word “physical”.