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Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988

Write the words of this act the way you think they should read. Solon shows your change as a redline against the published text and pins it to that exact text, so it can never be applied to wording you did not see.

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As published

135B Notice of intention to exercise right.

(1) A person intending to avail himself of the right conferred by section 135C must— (a) give notice to the licensing body of his intention to exercise the right, asking the body to propose terms of payment, and (b) after receiving the proposal or the expiry of a reasonable period, give reasonable notice to the licensing body of the date on which he proposes to begin exercising that right, and the terms of payment in accordance with which he intends to do so. (2) Where he has a licence to include the recordings in a broadcast . . . , the date specified in a notice under subsection (1)(b) must not be sooner than the date of expiry of that licence except in a case falling within section 135A(3). (3) Before the person intending to avail himself of the right begins to exercise it, he must— (a) give reasonable notice to the Copyright Tribunal of his intention to exercise the right, and of the date on which he proposes to begin to do so, and (b) apply to the Tribunal under section 135D to settle the terms of payment.

Your change, as a redline

135B Notice of intention to exercise right.

(1) A person intending to avail himself of the right conferred by section 135C must— (a) give notice to the licensing body of his intention to exercise the right, asking the body to propose terms of payment, and (b) after receiving the proposal or the expiry of a reasonable period, give reasonable notice to the licensing body of the date on which he proposes to begin exercising that right, and the terms of payment in accordance with which he intends to do so. (2) Where he has a licence to include the recordings in a broadcast . . . , the date specified in a notice under subsection (1)(b) must not be sooner than the date of expiry of that licence except in a case falling within section 135A(3). (3) Before the person intending to avail himself of the right begins to exercise it, he must— (a) give reasonable notice to the Copyright Tribunal of his intention to exercise the right, and of the date on which he proposes to begin to do so, and (b) apply to the Tribunal under section 135D to settle the terms of payment.

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Who it helps, what it costs, what it fixes. It is what persuades people to support it.

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