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Public and Educational Lending Rights (Better Income for Authors) Act 2026
No. 45, 2026
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Department of Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development, Communications, Sport and the Arts
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C2026A00045
20 May 2026
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Part 1—Preliminary
1 Short title
2 Commencement
3 Object of this Act
4 Simplified outline of this Act
5 Definitions
6 This Act extends to the external Territories
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Part 2—Public and Educational Lending Rights Scheme
7 Simplified outline of this Part
8 Minister to make Public and Educational Lending Rights Scheme
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Part 3—Public and Educational Lending Rights Committee
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Division 1—Simplified outline of this Part
9 Simplified outline of this Part
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Division 2—Establishment and functions and powers of the Public and Educational Lending Rights Committee
10 Establishment of Public and Educational Lending Rights Committee
11 Committee’s functions
12 Committee’s powers
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Division 3—Committee members
13 Number of Committee members
14 Appointments
15 Term of appointments
16 Acting positions
17 Remuneration
18 Leave of absence
19 Other paid work
20 Disclosure of interests to the Minister
21 Disclosure of interests to the Committee
22 Resignation of appointment
23 Termination of appointment
24 Other terms and conditions
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Division 4—Meetings
25 Convening meetings
26 Quorum
27 Presiding at meetings
28 Voting at meetings
29 Minutes
30 Conduct of meetings
31 Decisions without meetings
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Part 4—Review of decisions
32 Simplified outline of this Part
33 Secretary’s reconsideration of decisions
34 Administrative Review Tribunal review of decisions
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Part 5—Recovery of payments
35 Simplified outline of this Part
36 Recovery because of court order
37 Recovery of payments made because of false or misleading information or documents
38 Recovery of overpayments
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Part 6—Other matters
39 Simplified outline of this Part
40 Payments inalienable
41 Payment to legal personal representative
42 Staffing
43 Reports by the Secretary
44 Delegation by the Secretary
45 Rules