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Affidavit evidence.

Time limit for prosecutions.

Governor's power to amend the Schedule.

(3) Nothing in this section shall be construed as requicing any person to give any information which may incriminate bim.

9.

(1) An affidavit which--

(a) purports to have been made by or on behalf of the owner of a work or other subject matter in which copy- right subsists under the Act: and

(6) states thal–

(1) at a time specified therein copyright subsisted in the work or other subject matter;

(i) the person named therein is the owner of the copyright in the work or other subject matter; and

(ii) a copy of the work or other subject matter exhibited to the affidavit is a true copy of the work or other subject matter.

shall, if it complies with subsection (3), be admitted without further proof in any proceedings ander the Act or this Ordinance.

(2) The court before whom an affidavit is produced under subsection (1) shall presume, until the contrary is proved-

(a) that the statements made therein are true; and

(6) that it was made and authenticated in accordance with

subsection (3).

(3) An affidavit for the purposes of this section shall be- (a) made on path-

(i) before a magistrate or a notary public if it is made at any place within the Commonwealth; or

(i) before a consular officer of Her Majesty's Govern- ment in the United Kingdom or a notary public if it is made at any place outside the Commonwealth; and (b) authenticated, so far as relates to the making thereof, by the signature of the magistrate, notary public or consular officer before whom it is made.

10. No prosecution for an offence under the Act or this Ordinance shall be commenced after the expiration of three years after the commission of the offence or one year after the discovery thereof, whichever date last occurs.

11. The Governor may, by notice in the Gazette, amend the Schedule.

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12. The Copyright Ordinance and the Fine Arts Copyright Repeal. Ordinance are repealed.

(Caps. 19 and 40.)

(2) The Copyright (Application of the Copyright Act) Regula- Lions are revoked.

(Cup. 39, mab. Jeg.)

SCHEDULE

BROADCASTING ORGANIZATIONS.

1. Radio Hong Kong.

2. Hong Kong Comunercial Broadcasting Company Limited.

Television Broadcasts Limited,

3.

[a. 3.)

Passed by the Hong Kong Legislative Council this 31sı day of January. 1973.

Clerk to the Legislative Council.

This printed impression has been carefully compared by me with the bill, and is found by me to be a true and correctly printed copy of the said bill.

Clerk to the Legislative Council.