Legal background Great Ormond Street Hospital
Section 301 of, and Schedule 6 to, the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 set out the trust for the royalties relating to the "Peter Pan" play, as an exception to the limitation of copyright otherwise provided for in that legislation. Section 301 confers the right to royalties in respect of the play on the trustees for the benefit of Great Ormond Street Hospital. Paragraph 1(1) of Schedule 6 defines these as special trustees appointed for GOSH under the National Health Service Act 1977 or the National Health Service Act 2006 (the current appointment powers are set out in section 212 of that Act). Section 304 applies the law of England and Wales to the trust created by Schedule 6.
	Schedule 6 sets out the terms of the entitlement, including exceptions, savings, the procedure for determining the royalty amounts payable, the terms of the trust, and prohibitions on assignment, transfer or alteration of the arrangements established by the Schedule.
	The Act makes the necessary amendments to the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 to effect a change in the identity of the person on whom the right is conferred. This is because the trustees have, under charity law, converted from special trustees appointed by the Secretary of State to an independent charitable company.