1. This Order may be cited as the Copyright (International Conventions) (Amendment) Order 1989 and shall come into force on 8th March 1989.

2. The Copyright (International Conventions) Order 1979(2) shall be amended as follows:-�

(a)in Schedule 1 (which names the countries of the Berne Copyright Union) there shall be included a reference to each of Liberia and the United States of America (including Guam, Panama Canal Zone, Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands of the United States of America), indicated in each case with an asterisk to denote that each is also party to the Universal Copyright Convention; and

(b)in Schedule 2 (which names the countries party to the Universal Copyright Convention but not members of the Berne Union) the references to Liberia and the United States of America (and Guam, Panama Canal Zone, Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands of the United States of America), and the date indicated in relation to each country, shall be omitted.

3. Where any person has before the commencement of this Order incurred any expenditure or liability in connection with the reproduction or performance of any work or other subject matter in a manner which at the time was lawful, or for the purpose of or with a view to the reproduction or performance of a work at a time when such reproduction or performance would, but for the making of this Order, have been lawful, nothing in this Order shall diminish or prejudice any right or interest arising from or in connection with such action which is subsisting and valuable immediately before the commencement of this Order unless the person who by virtue of this Order becomes entitled to restrain such reproduction or performance agrees to pay such compensation as, failing agreement, may be determined by arbitration.

4. This Order shall extend to the countries mentioned in the Schedule hereto.

Article 4

SCHEDULECOUNTRIES TO WHICH THIS ORDER EXTENDS

Bermuda

British Indian Ocean Territory

British Virgin Islands

Cayman Islands

Falkland Islands

Gibraltar

Hong Kong

Isle of Man

Montserrat

St Helena

St Helena Dependencies (Ascension, Tristan da Cunha)

South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order further amends the Copyright (International Conventions) Order 1979 to take account of the accessions of Liberia and the United States of America to the Berne Copyright Convention.

Article 3 provides for the protection of contrary rights acquired before the commencement of this Order.

Article 4 extends the Order to the dependent countries of the Commonwealth to which the 1979 Order now extends.