Copyright and Related Rights Act, 2000
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 Libraries and archives: declarations.  |    
 228.—(1) Where regulations made by the Minister under section 227 require a librarian or archivist to be satisfied as to any matter before making or supplying a copy of a recording of a performance—  | |
(a) the librarian or archivist concerned may rely on a declaration as to that matter by the person requesting the copy, unless the librarian or archivist is aware that it is false in a material particular, and  | ||
(b) in such cases as may be prescribed, the librarian or archivist shall not make or supply the copy in the absence of a declaration in such form as may be prescribed.  | ||
(2) Where a person requesting a copy of a recording of a performance makes a declaration which is false in a material particular and is supplied with a copy which would have been an illicit recording if made by him or her—  | ||
(a) he or she shall be liable for infringement of the rights conferred by this Part as if he or she had made the copy, and  | ||
(b) the copy shall be treated as an illicit recording.  |