3Schedules

3 Schedules

Legislation that is specified in a Schedule to this Act is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this Act has effect according to its terms.

Schedule 1—Repeals

Public Lending Right Act 1985

1 The whole of the Act

Repeal the Act.

Schedule 2—Application, saving and transitional provisions

1 Definitions

In this Schedule:

new committee means the Public and Educational Lending Rights Committee established by section 10 of the Public and Educational Lending Rights (Better Income for Authors) Act 2026.

old committee means the Public Lending Right Committee established under section 7 of the Public Lending Right Act 1985.

old scheme means the Public Lending Right Scheme 2016 (as affected by any modification of that scheme).

2 Limited continued operation of the Public Lending Right Scheme

(1) The Public Lending Right Act 1985 and the old scheme, as in force immediately before the commencement of this item, continue in force on and after that commencement in relation to the following:

(a) a person’s entitlement to a payment under the old scheme that arose before that commencement;

(b) a decision (the initial decision) of the old committee made before that commencement in connection with a claim for a payment under the old scheme;

(c) a person’s entitlement to a payment under the old scheme that arose on or after that commencement because of the following kind of decision:

(i) a decision (the later decision) made by the old committee upon reconsideration of the initial decision;

(ii) a decision made by the Administrative Review Tribunal or a court following the initial decision or later decision;

(d) a payment made under the old scheme before, on or after that commencement.

(2) For the purposes of subitem (1), any function or power conferred on the old committee is taken, on and after that commencement, to be a function or power conferred on the new committee.

(3) Subject to subitem (4), a payment under the old scheme, as continued in force by subitem (1), must not be made after the third 30 June after the commencement of this item.

(4) Subitem (3) does not apply to a payment under the old scheme that is made after that third 30 June because of:

(a) the operation of subsection 25(2) of the old scheme (about correcting underpayments); or

(b) a decision of the Administrative Review Tribunal; or

(c) an order of a court.