APPENDIXPUBLIC LENDING RIGHT SCHEME 1982 ARRANGEMENT OF SCHEME
PART IIIREGISTRATION OF PUBLIC LENDING RIGHT
First Registration
Application for first registration
17.—(1) An application for first registration of Public Lending Right in respect of an eligible book—
(a)shall satisfy the requirements of Article 14 and be made by delivery at the registry;
(b)shall be made by an eligible author, and
(c)where the book has two or more authors (including any who are not eligible persons), shall specify the shares of each of them in the Right and, for that purpose, each of those authors shall be a party to the application.
(2) An application for first registration of an eligible author's share of Public Lending Right in respect of an eligible book with two or more authors (including any who are not eligible persons)—
(a)shall satisfy the requirements of Article 14 and be made by delivery at the registry, and
(b)shall be made by the author concerned.
(3) Anything which falls to be done by an author under this Article shall, if he is not of full age, be done by his parent or guardian and that parent or guardian shall be recorded in the Register as the person to whom are payable sums in respect of any registered interest of the author until such time as a transfer of the registration into the author's own name has been recorded in pursuance of Article 25.
Evidence required in connection with the applications
18. The Registrar may require the submission of evidence to satisfy him that a book is an eligible book and that a person applying as author for the first registration of Public Lending Right, or the registration of a share of the Right, in respect thereof—
(a)is in fact the author of that book;
(b)is an eligible person;
but for the purposes hereof he shall be entitled to rely upon a statutory declaration or a declaration made before a Notary Public.