{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/copyright-designs-and-patents-act-1988/schedule-2/paragraph-3B",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/copyright-designs-and-patents-act-1988/schedule-2/paragraph-3B.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1988/48",
  "legislation_title": "Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/copyright-designs-and-patents-act-1988",
  "path": "schedule/2/paragraph/3B",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "3B",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) If—\n(a) an authorised body has lawful access to the whole or part of a work which has been published or otherwise made available, and\n(b) the body complies with sub-paragraph (1A),\nthe body may, without infringing the rights conferred by this Chapter, make, communicate, make available, distribute or lend accessible copies of the work on a non-profit basis for the personal use of disabled persons in the United Kingdom ....\n(1A) An authorised body complies with this sub-paragraph if it—\n(a) distributes, communicates, makes available or lends accessible copies only to disabled persons or other authorised bodies,\n(b) takes appropriate steps to discourage the unauthorised reproduction, distribution, communication to the public or making available to the public of accessible copies,\n(c) demonstrates due care in, and maintains records of, its handling of works and accessible copies, and\n(d) publishes and updates, on its website if appropriate, or through other online or offline channels, information on how it complies with the obligations in paragraphs (a), (b) and (c).\n(2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(3) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(4) For the purposes of sub-paragraph (1), communicate, make available, distribute or lend “for the personal use of disabled persons” includes to communicate, make available, distribute or lend to a person acting on behalf of a disabled person.\n(5) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(6) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(7) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(8) An authorised body which has made an accessible copy of a recording under this paragraph may communicate, make available, distribute or lend it to another authorised body established in the United Kingdom ... which is entitled to make accessible copies of the recording under this paragraph for the purposes of enabling that other body to make accessible copies of the recording.\n(9) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(10) If an accessible copy of a recording made under this paragraph is subsequently dealt with—\n(a) it is to be treated as an illicit recording for the purposes of that dealing, and\n(b) if that dealing infringes any right conferred by this Chapter, it is to be treated as an illicit recording for all subsequent purposes.\n(11) In this paragraph “dealt with” means sold or let for hire or offered or exposed for sale or hire.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Sch. 2 paras. 3A-3E and cross-headings inserted (1.6.2014) by The Copyright and Rights in Performances (Disability) Regulations 2014 (S.I. 2014/1384), regs. 1(1), 3"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Sch. 2 para. 3B(1)(1A) substituted for Sch. 2 para. 3B(1) (11.10.2018) by The Copyright and Related Rights (Marrakesh Treaty etc.) (Amendment) Regulations 2018 (S.I. 2018/995), regs. 1(2), 13(3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 2 para. 3B(1) omitted (31.12.2020) by virtue of The Intellectual Property (Copyright and Related Rights) (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/605), regs. 1(2), 25(a) (with reg. 38) (as amended by S.I. 2020/1050, regs. 1(2), 4); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Sch. 2 para. 3B(2)(3) omitted (11.10.2018) by virtue of The Copyright and Related Rights (Marrakesh Treaty etc.) (Amendment) Regulations 2018 (S.I. 2018/995), regs. 1(2), 13(4)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 2 para. 3B(4) substituted (11.10.2018) by The Copyright and Related Rights (Marrakesh Treaty etc.) (Amendment) Regulations 2018 (S.I. 2018/995), regs. 1(2), 13(5)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 2 para. 3B(4) substituted (11.10.2018) by The Copyright and Related Rights (Marrakesh Treaty etc.) (Amendment) Regulations 2018 (S.I. 2018/995), regs. 1(2), 13(5)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F7",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 2 para. 3B(4) substituted (11.10.2018) by The Copyright and Related Rights (Marrakesh Treaty etc.) (Amendment) Regulations 2018 (S.I. 2018/995), regs. 1(2), 13(5)(c)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F8",
      "text": "Sch. 2 paras. 3B(5)-(7) omitted (11.10.2018) by virtue of The Copyright and Related Rights (Marrakesh Treaty etc.) (Amendment) Regulations 2018 (S.I. 2018/995), regs. 1(2), 13(6)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F9",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 2 para. 3B(8) substituted (11.10.2018) by The Copyright and Related Rights (Marrakesh Treaty etc.) (Amendment) Regulations 2018 (S.I. 2018/995), regs. 1(2), 13(7)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F10",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 2 para. 3B(8) inserted (11.10.2018) by The Copyright and Related Rights (Marrakesh Treaty etc.) (Amendment) Regulations 2018 (S.I. 2018/995), regs. 1(2), 13(7)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F11",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 2 para. 3B(8) omitted (31.12.2020) by virtue of The Intellectual Property (Copyright and Related Rights) (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/605), regs. 1(2), 25(b) (with reg. 38) (as amended by S.I. 2020/1050, regs. 1(2), 4); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F12",
      "text": "Sch. 2 para. 3B(9) omitted (11.10.2018) by virtue of The Copyright and Related Rights (Marrakesh Treaty etc.) (Amendment) Regulations 2018 (S.I. 2018/995), regs. 1(2), 13(8)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F13",
      "text": "Sch. 2 para. 3B(11) inserted (11.10.2018) by The Copyright and Related Rights (Marrakesh Treaty etc.) (Amendment) Regulations 2018 (S.I. 2018/995), regs. 1(2), 13(9)"
    }
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    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:47:40.311838+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}