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THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, AUGUST 11, 1933.
No. 545.
COLONIAL SECRETARY'S DEPARTMENT.
The following Order of His Majesty in Council is published for general information.
11th August, 1933.
D. W. TRATMAN,
Colonial Secretary.
STATUTORY RULES AND ORDERS, 1933,
No. 253.
COPYRIGHT.
International Copyright.
THE COPYRIGHT (ROME CONVENTION) ORDER, 1933.
AT THE COURT AT BUCKINGHAM PALACE, THE 16TH DAY OF MARCH, 1933.
PRESENT,
THE KING'S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY.
Lord President.
Master of the Horse.
Viscount Bridgeman.
Mr. Chancellor of the
Duchy of Lancaster. Captain Margesson.
Whereas on the ninth day of September, eighteen hundred and eighty-six a Convention (hereinafter called "the Berne Convention") for the constitution of an international Union for the protection of the rights of authors over their literary and artistic works and a Final Protocol thereto was concluded between Her late Majesty Queen Victoria and certain foreign countries:
And whereas on the fourth day of May, eighteen hundred and ninety-six, an Additional Act to the Berne Convention (hereinafter called "the Additional Act") was agreed upon. between Her late Majesty Queen Victoria and certain foreign countries:
And whereas on the thirteenth day of November, nineteen hundred and eight, a Convention (hereinafter called "the Berlin Convention"), replacing with modifications and additions the Berne Convention and the Additional Act, was. concluded between His late Majesty King Edward the Seventh and certain foreign states:
And whereas it was provided by the Berlin Convention that acceding states might indicate the provisions of the Berne Convention and the Additional Act which they might judge necessary to substitute for the corresponding provisions of
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