Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

PUBLIC LENDING RIGHT ACT 1985 - SECT 5

  (1)   The Minister may, by notice published in the Gazette :

  (a)   approve a scheme for and in relation to the making of payments to persons in respect of books; and

  (b)   modify the scheme so approved.

  (2)   The Minister shall not approve a scheme under paragraph   (1)(a) if it provides:

  (a)   for the making of payments in respect of books other than books that are held in libraries in Australia; or

  (b)   for the making of payments in respect of books to persons who are not prescribed persons in relation to those books.

  (3)   The Minister shall not modify the scheme under paragraph   (1)(b) if subsection   (2) would have prohibited the Minister from approving the scheme, as so modified, under paragraph   (1)(a).

  (4)   In this section, prescribed person , in relation to a book, means any of the following:

  (a)   an Australian author of the book;

  (c)   an Australian person who illustrated, translated, compiled or edited the book;

  (e)   a publisher of the book who is included in a class of publishers specified in the scheme.