{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/public-lending-right-scheme-1982-commencement-order-1982/schedule-APPENDIX/paragraph-5",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/public-lending-right-scheme-1982-commencement-order-1982/schedule-APPENDIX/paragraph-5.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1982/719",
  "legislation_title": "The Public Lending Right Scheme 1982 (Commencement) Order 1982",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/public-lending-right-scheme-1982-commencement-order-1982",
  "path": "schedule/APPENDIX/paragraph/5",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Eligible persons",
  "text": "(1) For the purposes of the Scheme, and in relation to each application by a person relating to an eligible book, the applicant is an eligible person if he is an author (within the meaning of Article 4) of that book who at the date of the application has his only or principal home in the United Kingdom or an EEA State or, if he has no home, has been present in the United Kingdom or an EEA State for not less than twelve months out of the preceding twenty-four months.\n(2) In this Article, “principal home”, in the case of a person having more than one home means that one of those homes at which he has been for the longest aggregate period during the twenty-four months immediately preceding the application for registration.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Appendix Scheme art. 5(1) substituted (28.12.1984) by The Public Lending Right Scheme 1982 (Amendment) Order 1984 (S.I. 1984/1847), arts. 1(1), 3"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in Appendix Scheme art. 5(1) substituted (1.6.2004) by Public Lending Right Scheme 1982 (Commencement of Variations) Order 2004 (S.I. 2004/1258), art. 2, Appendix para. (b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in Appendix Scheme art. 5(1) inserted (31.12.2020) by The Public Lending Right Scheme 1982 (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2018 (S.I. 2018/1083), regs. 1, 2(2)(a); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in Appendix Scheme art. 5(1) inserted (31.12.2020) by The Public Lending Right Scheme 1982 (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2018 (S.I. 2018/1083), regs. 1, 2(2)(b); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Appendix Scheme art. 5 in force at 14.6.1982, see art. 2(2)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1982/719/schedule/APPENDIX/paragraph/5",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T18:19:33.279069+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."
}