# The Public Lending Right Scheme 1982 (Amendment) Order 1984, Article 14: Information to be provided in connection with applications


Schedule 1 to the Scheme shall be amended in Part I by substituting for paragraphs 5, 6 and 7 the following paragraphs:—
“5 A statement signed by each applicant that in each case the conditions as to eligibility specified in Part II of the Scheme are satisfied at the date of application, accompanied, when the applicant has not previously made an application under Article 17 of this Scheme, by a certificate signed by a Member of Parliament, Justice of the Peace, Minister of Religion, lawyer, bank officer, school teacher, police officer, doctor or other person accepted by the Registrar as being of similar standing and stating that he has known the applicant for at least two years, that he is not related to the applicant and that to the best of his knowledge the contents of the statement by the applicant are true.
6 In the case of a work by more than one author—
(a) a statement signed by all the authors who are alive and can be traced at the date of application specifying—
(i) the agreed share in the Public Lending Right of each author, and
(ii) whether any author is translator, editor, compiler or, if any author is dead or untraced at the date of application, illustrator of the book and, if so, whether he is also an author of the book in another capacity, or
(b) a statement by the applicant that he is translator, editor or compiler of the book and that his claim to the Public Lending Right in respect thereof is limited to the percentage prescribed in Article 9A(2) or (3) as the case may be.
7 Where an editor or compiler of a book wishes to claim, or claim an equal share of, more than twenty per cent of the Public Lending Right in accordance with Article 9A(3), particulars indicating evidence of the percentage that he has, or where there are two or more editors or compilers that they have jointly, contributed to the contents of the book.
8 In the case of an author not of full age, a declaration by the applicant that he is the parent or guardian, as the case may be, of the author, and a copy of the author's birth certificate.”.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1984/1847/article/14 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/public-lending-right-scheme-1982-amendment-order-1984/article-14
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