Public and Educational Lending Rights (Better Income for Authors) Act 2026
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The Minister must make a scheme (the Public and Educational Lending Rights Scheme) covering the making of payments to the following:
(a) Australian creators of books that are part of the collections of public lending libraries in Australia or educational lending libraries in Australia;
(b) Australian publishers of those books.
The Public and Educational Lending Rights Committee is established. Its functions include those conferred on it by the scheme and advising the Secretary and the Minister about matters relating to the operation of this Act or of that scheme.
There are provisions providing for the reconsideration of decisions by the Secretary and the review of decisions by the Administrative Review Tribunal.