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THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, AUGUST 11, 1933.

And whereas by section twenty-nine of the Copyright Act, 1911, it is provided that His Majesty may by Order in Council direct that the said Act shall apply to certain classes of foreign works:

And whereas by section thirty of the said Act it is provided that any Order in Council under the said section twenty-nine shall apply to all His Majesty's dominions to which the said Act extends, except self-governing dominions and any other possession specified in the Order with respect to which it appears to His Majesty expedient that the Order should not apply:

And whereas the Act has effect in the following terri- tories, as if they were part of His Majesty's dominions to which the Act extends, that is to say :-Bechuanaland Protectorate, Gambia Protectorate, Kenya Protectorate, Nigeria Protectorate, Northern Territories of the Gold Coast, Northern Rhodesia, Nyasaland Protectorate, Sierra Leone Protectorate, Solomon Islands Protectorate, Somaliland Protectorate, Swaziland, Uganda Protectorate, Palestine, the Tanganyika Territory, Togoland under British Mandate, and the Cameroons under British Mandate :

And whereas this Order applies to the said territories except to that part of the mandated territory of Palestine which is known as Trans-Jordan, in respect of which as from the 31st day of October, 1929, His Majesty's powers of legislation have been and are being exercised by His Highness the Amir through the Government thereof:

And whereas therefore the Orders (except the last six mentioned in the Fourth Schedule to this Order) revoked by Article 4 of this Order will continue to have full force and effect in Trans-Jordan unless and until revoked by an Act of the legislature of Trans-Jordan:

And whereas by section thirty-two of the said Act it is provided that His Majesty in Council may make Orders for altering, revoking or varying any Order in Council made under the said Act but that any Order made under the sail section should not affect prejudicially any rights or interess acquired or accrued at the date when the Order comes into operation and should provide for the protection of such rights and interests:

Now, therefore, His Majesty, by and with the advice of His Privy Council, and by virtue of the authority conferred upon Him by the Copyright Act, 1911, and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf is pleased to direct and doth. hereby direct as follows:-

1. This Order relates to the following foreign Countries, that is to say-Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Bulgaria, Czecho- Slovakia, Free City of Dantzig, Denmark with the Faroe Islands, Estonia, Finland, France with Algeria and Colonies, Germany, Greece, Hayti, Hungary, Italy, Japan with Korea, Formosa, Japanese Saghalien and Kwantung Leased Territory, Liechtensein, Luxembourg, Monaco, Morocco (French Zone), Netherlands with the Netherlands East Indies, Surinam and Curacao, Norway, Poland, Portugal with Colonies, Roumania. Siam, Spain with Colonies, Sweden, Switzerland, Syria and Lebanon, Tunis and Yugo-Slavia (which countries are herein- after referred to as the foreign countries of the Copyright Union).