Explanatory note

A licensing scheme operated by Educational Recording Agency Limited was certified for the purposes of section 35 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 (1988 c. 48) (“the Act”) by the Copyright (Certification of Licensing Scheme for Educational Recording of Broadcasts and Cable Programmes) (Educational Recording Agency Limited) Order 1990 (S.I. 1990/879) (“the Order”) made under section 143 of the Act.

Educational Recording Agency Limited wishes to vary paragraph 10 of this licensing scheme in order to increase the fees payable under the scheme and to make minor drafting changes.

Section 143 of the Act provides that a variation of a licensing scheme is not effective unless a corresponding amendment of the order certifying the scheme is made.

This Order is made under section 143 of the Act and amends paragraph 10 of the licensing scheme set out in the Schedule to the Order to correspond with the variation to the scheme which Educational Recording Agency Limited wishes to make.