I beg to move amendment No. 7, in

clause 9, page 5, leave out lines 32 and 33.

With this it will be convenient to discuss the following:

Amendment No. 8, in

clause 9, page 6, line 5, leave out from ‘“publication”’ to end of line 6 and insert—

‘ , in relation to a work—

(a)means the issue of copies of the work to the public, and

(b)includes making the work available to the public by means of an electronic retrieval system;

and related expressions are to be interpreted accordingly;’.

Amendment No. 7 removes the definition of publication right, because that is no longer referred to. It is consequential on clause 7 not standing part of the Bill. Amendment No. 8 provides clarification. It includes the definition of publication in the Bill, rather than referring back to the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988, and ensures that the definition is in terms of the work to be deposited, rather than the intellectual property rights in that work, as it would be if the definition in the 1988 Act were used. It is a fairly technical amendment. It will not have a substantial effect, but it will make a definite improvement to the Bill.

Amendment agreed to.

Amendment made:No. 8, in

clause 9, page 6, line 5, leave out from ‘“publication”’ to end of line 6 and insert—

‘ , in relation to a work—

(a)means the issue of copies of the work to the public, and

(b)includes making the work available to the public by means of an electronic retrieval system;

and related expressions are to be interpreted accordingly;’.—[Mr. Mole.]

Clause 9, as amended, ordered to stand part of the Bill.