THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, AUGUST 11, 1933.
the Berlin Convention and also that signatory states might declare at the exchange of ratifications that they desired to remain bound, as regards any specific point, by the provisions of the Conventions which they had previously signed:
And whereas by the Copyright Act, 1911, (a) and the Orders in Council made thereunder mentioned in the Fourth Schedule to this Order effect is now given throughout the parts of His Majesty's dominions to which this Order applies to the Berlin Convention:
And whereas on the twentieth day of March, nineteen hundred and fourteen, an Additional Protocol to the Berlin Convention was agreed upon between His Majesty and certain foreign countries:
And whereas on the second day of June, nineteen hundred and twenty-eight, a Convention (b) (hereinafter called "the Rome Convention') replacing with modifications and additions the Berne Convention and the subsequent revisions thereof was concluded between His Majesty and certain foreign countries:
And whereas it was provided by the Rome Convention that the instruments previously in force should continue to be applicable in regard to relations with countries which did not ratify the Rome Convention, and that the countries on whose behalf the Rome Convention was signed might retain the benefit of the reservations which they had previously formulated and that other countries might accede to the Rome Convention with the right to enjoy the benefit of the last mentioned provision:
And whereas the Rome Convention was ratified by Ilis Majesty in respect of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and of British India and applies, by virtue of notice given by His Majesty under the provisions of the Rome Convention, to the other parts of His Majesty's dominions to which this Order applies by virtue of section thirty of the Copyright Act, 1911:
And whereas the following countries, that is to say: Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Czecho-Slovakia, Denmark with the Faroe Islands, Estonia, France with Algeria and Colonies, Germany, Hayti, Monaco, Morocco (French Zone), Poland, Portugal with Colonies, Roumania, Siam, Spain with Colonies, Syria and Lebanon and Tunis, acceded to or ratified the Berlin Convention subject to the reservations mentioned in the First Schedule to this Order as respects the substitution of provisions of the Berne Convention or of the Additional Act for the corresponding provisions of the Berlin Convention or as respects provisions by which they desired to remain bound of the Conventions which they had previously signed but have not ratified the Rome Convention :
And whereas the following countries, that is to say Bulgaria, Free City of Dantzig, Finland, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Japan with Korea, Formosa, Japanese Saghalien and Kwantung Leased Territory, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Netherlands with the Netherlands East Indies, Surinam and Curacao, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland, and Yugo-slavia, have ratified or acceded to the Rome Convention subject to the reservations mentioned in the Second Schedule to this Order as respects reservations which they had previously formulated:
(a) 1-2 G. 5. c. 46. (6) Miscellaneous No. 11 (1931) (Cmd. 3864).
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