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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

151A Award of interest.

(1) Any of the following, namely— (a) a direction under section 123(3) so far as relating to a licence for communicating a work to the public; (b) a direction under section 128(3) so far as so relating; (c) an order under section 135D(1); and (d) an order under section 135F confirming or varying an order under section 135D(1), may award simple interest at such rate and for such period, beginning not earlier than the relevant date and ending not later than the date of the order, as the Copyright Tribunal thinks reasonable in the circumstances. (2) In this section “ the relevant date ” means— (a) in relation to a direction under section 123(3), the date on which the reference was made; (b) in relation to a direction under section 128(3), the date on which the reference or application was made; (c) in relation to an order section 135D(1), the date on which the first payment under section 135C(2) became due; and (d) in relation to an order under section 135F, the date on which the application was made.

Your change, as a redline

151A Award of interest.

(1) Any of the following, namely— (a) a direction under section 123(3) so far as relating to a licence for communicating a work to the public; (b) a direction under section 128(3) so far as so relating; (c) an order under section 135D(1); and (d) an order under section 135F confirming or varying an order under section 135D(1), may award simple interest at such rate and for such period, beginning not earlier than the relevant date and ending not later than the date of the order, as the Copyright Tribunal thinks reasonable in the circumstances. (2) In this section “ the relevant date ” means— (a) in relation to a direction under section 123(3), the date on which the reference was made; (b) in relation to a direction under section 128(3), the date on which the reference or application was made; (c) in relation to an order section 135D(1), the date on which the first payment under section 135C(2) became due; and (d) in relation to an order under section 135F, the date on which the application was made.

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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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