# The Public Lending Right Scheme 1982 (Commencement) Order 1982, Paragraph 49: Notification of entitlement and payment of sums due under the Scheme

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

(1) Any sum payable by way of Public Lending Right in respect of a registered interest, for any financial year, shall (unless sooner paid) fall due for payment on the last day of that year.
(2) Any such sum may be paid by cheque or warrant sent through the post directed to the registered address of the registered owner or, in the case of joint owners, to the registered address of the senior owner (as defined in Article 21(2)), or to such person and to such address as the owner or joint owners may direct by a written payment mandate to the Board, delivered at the registry, in the form set out in Schedule 4 or a form to the like effect; every such cheque or warrant shall be made payable to the order of the person to whom it is sent and any one of two or more joint owners may give a good receipt for any money due to them under this Scheme.
(3) The Board shall at the end of each financial year, or as soon as is reasonably practicable thereafter, inform each registered owner, to whom a sum is payable by way of Public Lending Right in respect of that year, by notice posted to his registered address of—
(a) the notional number of lendings for that year of each book in respect of which he is a registered owner; and
(b) the amount of such sum.
(4) If, after the Board has notified the registered owner as provided in paragraph (3), the cheque or warrant for the sum referred to therein is not presented for payment and thereby lapses—
(a) there shall be no further duty on the part of the Board to take steps to trace the registered owner and it shall be the responsibility of such owner to make application to the Board for payment; and
(b) if at the end of six years from the date upon which a payment in respect of Public Lending Right becomes due no such application has been made by the person entitled thereto, the entitlement to such payment shall lapse.
(5) At the request of a registered owner to whom no notice is required to be given under paragraph (3) in respect of any financial year, the Board shall supply to him particulars (calculated in accordance with article 42) of the number of notional loans during the sampling year ending in that financial year of any book in respect of which he is the registered owner, provided the request is made no later than six months after the end of that financial year.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1982/719/schedule/APPENDIX/paragraph/49 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/public-lending-right-scheme-1982-commencement-order-1982/schedule-APPENDIX/paragraph-49
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