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Copyright Act 1968
153KApplications to Tribunal for method of working out payment for government copies
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153K Applications to Tribunal for method of working out payment for government copies
(1) A collecting society or a government may apply to the Tribunal for an order determining the method for working out remuneration payable under subsection 183A(2) for government copies made for the services of the government in a particular period.
(2) The parties to an application are the collecting society and the government.
(3) After giving each party an opportunity of presenting its case, the Tribunal must make an order determining the method.
Note: Subsection 183A(3) sets out matters that the method must provide for. Subsection 183A(4) sets out matters that the method may provide for.
(4) An order may also specify how and when payments of the amount worked out using the method determined are to be made.
153KA Review of collecting society’s distribution arrangement
(1) This section has effect if an application is made to the Tribunal under section 183F for review of an arrangement adopted, or proposed to be adopted, by a collecting society for distributing amounts it collects in a period.
(c) a member of the collecting society, or an organization claiming to be representative of members of the collecting society, that the Tribunal makes a party to the application.
(3) The Tribunal may make a member of the collecting society, or an organization claiming to be representative of members of the collecting society, a party to the application if:
(a) the member or organization asks to be made a party; and
(b) the Tribunal is satisfied that the member or organization has a substantial interest in the arrangement.
(4) The Tribunal must consider the application, give the parties an opportunity of presenting their cases then make an order:
(c) substituting for the arrangement another arrangement for distributing amounts the collecting society collects in the period.
collecting society has the same meaning as in Division 2 of Part VII.
Subdivision G—Applications and references relating to Part VC