The Public Lending Right Scheme 1982 (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2018

The Public Lending Right Scheme 1982 (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2018

Proposed Negative
Published 15 August 2018
ESIC: No upgrade
SLSC: No upgrade 

This instrument will amend the Public Lending Right Scheme to maintain continuity after the UK has left the European Union, so that authors resident in the UK will continue to be eligible to register for the Public Lending Right alongside residents of a European Economic Area State. Under the Scheme authors receive payments from a central government fund based on the number of times their books are lent out by public libraries. 

Having considered the consultation responses, the Minister decided to amend the Scheme to ensure that authors resident in the United Kingdom will continue to eligible to register for the Public Lending Right following the United Kingdom’s exit from the EU. The Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport also engaged with the devolved administrations about the proposed amendment. In particular, in accordance with long established practice in this area, the Department consulted with Northern Ireland as the subject matter of the Public Lending Right is a transferred matter in respect of Northern Ireland. The Permanent Secretary of the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport wrote to the Permanent Secretary at Northern Ireland’s Department for Communities to officially inform him of this proposed instrument, and he responded to note this intention to legislate.

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