Copyright and Related Rights (Register of Licensing Bodies For Performers’ Property Rights) Regulations, 2008

• Jurisdiction: Ireland
• Citation: IR SI 306/2008
• Year: 2008

S.I. No. 306 of 2008

COPYRIGHT AND RELATED RIGHTS (REGISTER OF LICENSING BODIES FOR PERFORMERS’ PROPERTY RIGHTS) REGULATIONS 2008

Notice of the making of this Statutory Instrument was published in

“Iris Oifigiúil” of 5th August, 2008.

I, MARY COUGHLAN, Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment, in exercise of the powers conferred on me by sections 7 and 280(1), (3), (4), (5) and (7) of the Copyright and Related Rights Act 2000 (No. 28 of 2000) and in so far as these regulations relate to fees with the consent of the Minister for Finance, hereby make the following regulations:

1. These Regulations may be cited as the Copyright and Related Rights (Register of Licensing Bodies for Performers’ Property Rights) Regulations 2008.

2. In these Regulations—

“Act ” means the Copyright and Related Rights Act 2000 (No. 28 of 2000);

“licensing body” has the meaning assigned to it by section 265 of the Act;

“Register” means the Register of Licensing Bodies for Performers’ Property Rights referred to in section 280(1) of the Act;

“ring-binder” means a loose-leaf binder with ring-shaped clasps that can be opened to pass through holes in the documents to be contained therein;

“the Office” means the place designated by the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment to be the place at which the Controller of Patents Designs and Trademarks shall perform his or her principal functions.

3. (1) The Register shall be established and maintained in the form of a series of ring-binders associated with each other by means of an index.

(2) An entry in the Register shall consist of—

(a) a copy of the certificate of registration issued to the registered licensing body concerned in accordance with section 280(7) of the Act, and

(b) the documents containing the information specified in the Schedule.

(3) Each entry in the Register shall be held in a ring-binder (or, where the extent of the entry so requires, in a series of ring-binders).

(4) The Register shall contain up to date information and the Controller may remove from time to time material that is of historical value or is surplus to requirements.

4. (1) The place at which the Register is kept shall be the Office.

(2) The times at which the Register shall be available for inspection at the Office by a member of the public shall be those during which the Office is open to the public.

(3) The fee for such inspection shall be of the amount of €5.

5. The fee for the supply of a reprographic copy of an entry in the Register, or part of such an entry, shall be—

(a) if it is not certified by the Controller to be a true copy of the original, of the amount of...