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THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, OCTOBER 15, 1937.

No. 731.

COLONIAL SECRETARY'S DEPARTMENT.

With reference to Government Notifications Nos. 545 of 1933, and 394 and 904 of 1935 the following Order of His Majesty in Council is published for general information.

R. A. C. NORTH,

Colonial Secretary.

15th October, 1937.

THE COPYRIGHT (ROME CONVENTION) (LATVIA) ORDER, 1937.

AT THE COURT AT BUCKINGHAM PALACE,

THE 2ND DAY OF FEBRUARY, 1937.

PRESENT.

THE KING'S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY.

LORD PRESIDENT.

EARL OF GRANARD.

LORD HUTCHISON OF MONTROSE.

SIR SAMUEL HOARE.

SIR PHILIP SASSOON.

WHEREAS His late Majesty King George the Fifth by virtue of the authority conferred upon Him, by the Copyright Act, 1911, (hereinafter called "the Act") was pleased to make the Copyright (Rome Convention) Order, 1933, (here- inafter called "the Principal Order"):

AND WHEREAS Latvia has acceded to the International Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works signed at Rome on the 2nd day of June, 1928, subject to the reservation that the provisions of Article 5 of the Berne Convention to which reference is made in the Principal Order and which relates to the right of translation, as amended by• the Additional Act in the said Order mentioned, shall be substituted for the provisions of Article 8 of the Rome Convention to which the Principal Order refers :

AND WHEREAS by Section 32 of the Act it is provided that His Majesty in Council may make Orders for altering, revoking or varying any Order in Council made under the Act, but that any Order made under the said Section should not affect prejudicially any rights or interests acquired or accrued at the date when the Order comes into operation, and should provide for the protection of such rights and interests :

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