COPYRIGHT.
No. 11 of 1918.
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No. 11 of 1918.
No. 11 of 1918.
An Ordinance to modify and to add to the provisions of Originally the Copyright Act, 1911, in its application to the Colony of Hongkong.
[30th August, 1918.]
Law Rev. Ord., 1924.] 1 & 2 Geo. 5, c. 46.
1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Copyright Ordinance, 1918.
2. For the purpose of the application of section 14 of the Copyright Act, 1911, to the importation into this Colony of works made out of the Colony-
(1) The Superintendent of Imports and Exports shall perform the duties and may exercise the powers thereby imposed on or given to the Commissioners of Customs and Excise of the United Kingdom.
(2) Regulations made by the Superintendent of Imports and Exports under that section shall require the approval of the Governor in Council.
(3) Regulations made under that section may provide that notices given to the Commissioners of Customs and Excise of the United Kingdom, if communicated by them to the Superintendent of Imports and Exports, shall be deemed to have been given by the owner of the copyright to the Superintendent of Imports and Exports.
(4) That section shall have effect as if it formed part of the Importation and Exportation Ordinance, 1915.
3.-(1) Every person who knowingly-
5, c. 46, s. 14.
Ordinance No. 32 of 1915.
Penalties for dealing with
(a) makes for sale or hire any infringing copy of a work in which copyright subsists; or
copies, etc. 1 & 2 Geo. 5,
(b) sells, or lets for hire, or by way of trade exposes or offers for sale or hire, any infringing copy of any such work; or
(c) distributes infringing copies of any such work either for the purposes of trade or to such an extent as to affect prejudicially the owner of a copyright; or
* As amended by Law Rev. Ord., 1924.
* c. 46, s. 11.