New Zealand Legislation: Regulations

7 Register for purposes of scheme

• (1) The chief executive may keep the register in writing or electronically.

  (2) The chief executive must provide a registration form that can be submitted in writing or electronically.

  (3) The registration form may require a New Zealand author to provide some or all of the following:

  • (a) the author's name:

  • (b) the author's pen name, if any:

  • (c) the author's contact details:

  • (d) details about the author's book:

  • (e) a statement that the author is eligible to receive a royalty payment for the book:

  • (f) the names of any other authors of the book:

  • (g) for a book that has 2 or 3 authors, the proportions in which the royalty payment is shared under the publishing contract:

  • (h) the means by which the author wants to receive his or her payment under the scheme:

  • (i) either—

    • (i) a copy of the author's publishing contract; or

    • (ii) if the author has published the book wholly of his or her own accord, a statement confirming the author's eligibility to receive income from the sale of the book:

  • (j) any other information or statement necessary for the administration of the scheme:

  • (k) a declaration under the Oaths and Declarations Act 1957 about any information or statement provided by the author in the form.

  (4) An author who wants to receive a payment under the scheme in a year must submit a completed registration form to the chief executive between 1 January and 30 April in that year.

  (5) The author must submit the registration form in writing or electronically.

  (6) The author has entered his or her name in the register when the chief executive accepts the author's registration form.