PREMIER LEAGUE

SECTION V: PLAYERS – TRANSFERS OF REGISTRATIONS
to the assignee named in the instruction on the date or dates when it becomes due under the
Transfer Agreement pursuant to which it acquired the registration of the Player.
V.35.
V.36.
An agreement for an International Transfer and a Transfer Agreement with a Transferor Club
which is not in membership of the League or the Football League shall provide that the
Compensation Fee, any instalments thereof and any Contingent Sums payable by the Transferee
Club shall be paid (together with any Value Added Tax payable in respect thereof) to the Football
Association by telegraphic transfer or by such other means as the Board may from time to time
direct for payment to the Transferor Club in accordance with the Football Association Rules.
Upon the happening of a contingent event resulting in a Contingent Sum (including for the
avoidance of doubt, contingent compensation payable pursuant to the Youth Development
Rules) becoming payable:
V.36.1. in the case of an International Transfer, the Transferee Club shall forthwith inform
the Transferor Club in writing to that effect and within 7 days pay such Contingent
Sum in accordance with Rule V.35;
V.36.2. in every other case, the Transferee Club shall forthwith inform the Transferor Club
to that effect on Form 32 and within 7 days pay such Contingent Sum in
accordance with Rule V.29.
PREMIER LEAGUE RULES: SECTION A V
V.37.
If any Transferee Club acts in breach of Rules V.29 or V.32 to V.36 inclusive:
V.37.1. the Board shall have power to refuse any application by that Transferee Club to
register any Player until any sums then payable to its Transferor Club are paid;
V.37.2. the Board shall have the power set out at Rule E.28;
V.37.3. the Board shall have power to impose a penalty in accordance with the tariff of
applicable penalties which it shall from time to time notify to Clubs;
V.37.4. that Transferee Club shall pay to its Transferor Club interest on any part of a
Compensation Fee or Contingent Sum not paid on its due date at the rate of 5 per
cent over the base rate from time to time of Barclays Bank Plc from that date until
the date of payment together with such other penalty as the Board in its discretion
may decide.
Transfer Levy
V.38.
V.39.
V.40.
Subject to Rule V.39, upon payment of a Compensation Fee, a Contingent Sum or a payment
made pursuant to Rule U.39, a Club shall forthwith pay to the League a levy equal to 4 per
cent. of the sum paid (net of any Value Added Tax) and in the case of a Compensation Fee
payable by instalments, the levy upon the whole of it shall be paid as aforesaid upon the
Transferee Club applying to register the Player to which it relates.
Levy shall not be payable on a Loan Fee unless the registration of the Contract Player who is
the subject of the Temporary Transfer is transferred on a permanent basis from the Transferor
Club to the Transferee Club during, or within four months of the expiry of, the Temporary
Transfer, in which case a levy equal to 4 per cent of the aggregate of any Loan Fee and
Compensation Fee shall be paid to the League.
The sums received by the League by way of levy shall be used to pay premiums due under the
Professional Footballers’ Pension Scheme and any surplus shall be added to the Professional
Game Youth Fund.
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