Paragraph 5

The following new article shall be inserted in the Scheme after article 6—

“Posthumously eligible books

6A

For the purposes of the Scheme, a book is a posthumously eligible book if—

(a)

it is a book within the meaning of article 6(2),

(b)

the sole author, or at least one of the authors, of the book is a posthumously eligible person, and

(c)

the book is either

(i)

published within one year before or ten years after the date of that person’s death and that person had made a successful application during his lifetime for registration of Public Lending Right or of an eligible author’s share of the Right in respect of at least one other book, or

(ii)

a book which consists of or incorporates a work of that person which had previously been the constituent of or incorporated in a book in relation to which that person had made such an application as aforesaid.”.