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Statutory Instruments
COPYRIGHT
Made
24th July 1990
Laid before Parliament
1st August 1990
Coming into force
22nd August 1990
At the Court of Buckingham Palace, the 24th day of July 1990
Present,
The Queen's Most Excellent Majesty in Council
Her Majesty, by virtue of the authority conferred on Her by paragraph 37(1) and (2)(b) of Schedule 1 to the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988(1) ("the Act"), is pleased, by and with the advice of Her Privy Council, to order, and it is hereby ordered, as follows:-
1. This Order may be cited as the Copyright (Status of Former Dependent Territories) Order 1990 and shall come into force on 22nd August 1990.
2. It is hereby declared for the purposes of paragraph 37(1) of Schedule 1 to the Act (copyright status of former dependent territories) that immediately before the commencement of Part I of the Act on1st August 1989 each of the countries specified in Schedule 1 to this Order was a country to which the Copyright Act 1956(2) extended or was treated as such a country by virtue of paragraph 39(2) of Schedule 7 to that Act (countries to which the Copyright Act 1911(3) extended or was treated as extending).
3. It is hereby declared that each of the countries specified in Schedule 2 to this Order shall cease to be treated as a country to which Part I of the Act extends for the purposes of sections 154 to 156 of the Act (qualification for copyright protection) by reason of the fact that the provisions of the Copyright Act 1956 or, as the case may be, the Copyright Act 1911,which extended there as part of the law of that country have been repealed or amended.
G. I. de Deney
Clerk of the Privy Council
Article 2
Countries to which the Copyright Act 1956 extended or was treated as extending immediately before1st August 1989:
Antigua
Botswana
Dominica
Gambia
Grenada
Guyana
Jamaica
Kiribati
Lesotho
St. Christopher-Nevis
St. Lucia
Seychelles
Solomon Islands
Swaziland
Tuvalu
Uganda
Article 3
Countries ceasing to be treated as countries to which Part I of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 extends:
Botswana
Seychelles
Solomon Islands
Uganda
(This note is not part of the Order)
This Order declares the status under Part I of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 of certain former dependent territories of the United Kingdom.
Article 2 and Schedule 1 specify those countries which immediately before commencement of Part I of the 1988 Act (on 1st August 1989) were not dependent territories but to which the Copyright Act 1956 extended or was treated as extending.
Article 3 and Schedule 2 specify such of those countries listed in Schedule 1 which cease to be treated as countries to which Part I of the 1988 Act extends. They are all countries which have repealed or amended the 1911 or 1956 Act as part of their own law.
This Order has no effect on the continued application of the 1911 or the 1956 Act as part of the law of any country which has retained either of those Acts, or on the application of Part I of the 1988 Act to works from any country in respect of which an Order in Council is made under section 159 of that Act (see the Copyright (Application to Other Countries) (No. 2) Order 1989 (S.I. 1989/1293)).
