# The Public Lending Right Scheme 1982 (Commencement) Order 1982, Paragraph 42: Method of determining the number of notional loans

Extent: E+W+S+N.I.

(1) The Board shall, from the details of loans furnished to the Board by local library authorities pursuant to the provisions of this Part (upon the accuracy of which the Board shall be entitled to rely), calculate, in accordance with paragraph (2), the number of notional loans of each book in respect of which Public Lending Right subsists in each sampling year.
(2) The number of notional loans of each book made during a sampling year shall be the aggregate of the number of notional loans of that book made in all groups; and , except where paragraph (5) applies, the number of notional loans for a group shall be determined in accordance with the following formula:—
Total notional loans in the group=AB×CWhere—
A represents the number of loans of that book recorded during the sampling year at the operative sampling points in that group;
B represents the total number of loans of books made to the public during the sampling year from the operative sampling points in that group; and
C represents the aggregate of the loans of all books made to the public from all libraries (within the meaning of section 3(4) of the Act) in the area of the group during the ... sampling year in question, or, as regards any particular library for which loan data relating to that sampling year is not available to the Board, the most recent sampling year or financial year for which the Board has such data.
(3) For the purposes of paragraphs (2) and (5)
(a) Groups A, B and C in Schedule 2 shall be treated as one group; ...
(b) if on any occasion on which any details of lendings at a particular sampling point which consists of a single service point are furnished to the Board in accordance with article 40 and record loans of a physical copy of a book in excess of an average of one loan for each period of five days covered by the details, the loans in excess of that average shall be disregarded; and
(c) the Board may disregard any loan of a book reported from a sampling point in accordance with Article 40 where the local library authority does not specify an International Standard Book Number in respect of the book.
(4) Paragraph (5) applies where the Board has designated all service points in a group as (or as included in) operative sampling points for the purpose of a sampling year.
(5) Where this paragraph applies, the number of notional loans of a book for the group in question during that sampling year is the number of loans of that book recorded during the sampling year at the operative sampling points in that group.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1982/719/schedule/APPENDIX/paragraph/42 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/public-lending-right-scheme-1982-commencement-order-1982/schedule-APPENDIX/paragraph-42
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