TNAG-2819-FCO40-4068-Future-of-Hong-Kong-International-Rights-and-Obligations-(IR-1993 — Page 80

布政司署

香港下亞厘畢道

(54) in TIB 06/46/2 III

本署檔號 Our Ref.:

來函檔號 Your Ref.:

CONFIDENTIAL

By fax and by baq

Miss Annadele Bouch

Hong Kong Department

Foreign and Commonwealth Office

London

SW1A 2AR

Dear Miss Bouch

GOVERNMENT SECRETARIAT

LOWER ALBERT ROAD HONG KONG

20 September 1993

HKC 031/15

2.OCT 1993

Extension of Copyright Act 1956 to Hong Kong

Your fax of 13 August 1993 to Mr Peter

Harrison of the Recreation and Culture Branch raised the

question of the legal effect of the Copyright (Hong Kong) (Amendment) Order 1990. We cannot agree with your latest legal advice that despite the intention to

preserve the copyright regime for Hong Kong, all that

paragraph 36 (2) of Schedule 1 to the 1988 Copyright, Designs and Patents Act ("the 1988 Act") had succeeded doing was to "freeze" Hong Kong's copyright regime as the time of the enactment of the 1988 Act, and that

any action taken by HKG under powers conferred by the

1990 Order is null and void.

in

at

2.

History.

the 1985

In 1989 HKG sought extension of

Copyright (Taiwan) Order to Hong Kong (our

Telno 3910 of 28.11.89). You advised

that the 1985

/Order

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