{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/public-lending-right-scheme-1982-commencement-of-variations-order-1998/schedule/paragraph-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/public-lending-right-scheme-1982-commencement-of-variations-order-1998/schedule/paragraph-1.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1998/1218",
  "legislation_title": "The Public Lending Right Scheme 1982 (Commencement of Variations) Order 1998",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/public-lending-right-scheme-1982-commencement-of-variations-order-1998",
  "path": "schedule/paragraph/1",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "Schedule 2 of the Scheme shall be varied by substituting for GROUPS A to the end the following:\n“GROUP A\nThose within the areas of the following districts or, as the case may be, counties—\nBedfordshire\nBracknell Forest\nBrighton and Hove\nBuckinghamshire\nCambridgeshire\nEast Sussex\nEssex\nHertfordshire\nMedway Council\nKent\nLuton\nMilton Keynes\nNewbury\nNorfolk\nNorthamptonshire\nOxfordshire\nPeterborough\nReading\nSlough\nSouthend\nThurrock\nSuffolk\nSurrey\nWest Sussex\nWindsor and Maidenhead\nWokingham\nGROUP B\nThose within the areas of the following districts or, as the case may be, counties—\nBath and North East Somerset\nBournemouth\nCity of Bristol\nCity of Portsmouth\nCity of Southampton\nCity of Stoke-on-Trent\nCornwall\nDevon\nDorset\nGloucestershire\nHampshire\nHerefordshire\nThe Isle of Wight\nThe Isles of Scilly\nNorth Somerset\nPlymouth\nPoole\nShropshire\nSomerset\nSouth Gloucestershire\nStaffordshire\nSwindon\nTorbay\nWarwickshire\nWiltshire\nWorcestershire\nThe Wrekin\nGROUP C\nThose within the areas of the following districts or, as the case may be, counties—\nBlackburn\nBlackpool\nCheshire\nCity of Derby\nCity of Kingston upon Hull\nCity of Leicester\nCumbria\nDarlington\nDerbyshire\nDurham\nEast Riding of Yorkshire\nHalton\nHartlepool\nLancashire\nLeicestershire\nLincolnshire\nNottingham\nMiddlesbrough\nNorth East Lincolnshire\nNorth Lincolnshire\nNorthumberland\nNorth Yorkshire\nNottinghamshire\nRedcar and Cleveland\nRutland\nStockton-on-Tees\nWarrington\nYork\nGROUP D\nThose within the areas of the metropolitan districts of England.\nGROUP E\nThose within the area of Greater London.\nGROUP F\nThose in Wales.\nGROUP G\nThose in Scotland.\nGROUP H\nThose in Northern Ireland.”",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1998/1218/schedule/paragraph/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T11:31:01.718915+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."
}