25450-1912-PROCLAMATION — Page 7

THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, JUNE 28, 1912.

(4) The regulations may apply to copies of all works the importation of copies of which is prohibited by this section, or different regulations may be made respecting different classes of such works.

(5) The regulations may provide for the informant reimbursing the Commis sioners of Customs and Excise all expenses and damages incurred in respect of any detention made on his information, and of any proceedings consequent on such detention; and may provide for notices under any enactment repealed by this Act being treated as notices given under this section.

(6) The foregoing provisions of this section shall have effect as if they were part of the Customs Consolidation Act, 1876: Provided that, notwithstanding anything in that Act, the Isle of Man shall not be treated as part of the United Kingdom for the purposes of this section.

(7) This section shall, with the necessary modifications, apply to the impor- tation into a British possession to which this Act extends of copies of works made out of that possession.

Delivery of Books to Libraries.

15.-(1) The publisher of every book published in the United Kingdom shall, Delivery within one month after the publication, deliver, at his own expense, a copy of the of copies book to the trustees of the British Museum, who shall give a written receipt for it. Museum

(2) He shall also, if written demand is made before the expiration of twelve months after publication, deliver within one month after receipt of that written de- mand or, if the demand was made before publication, within one month after public- ation, to some depôt in London named in the demand a copy of the book for, or in accordance with the directions of, the authority having the control of each of the following libraries, namely: the Bodleian Library, Oxford, the University Library, Cambridge, the Library of the Faculty of Advocates at Edinburgh, and the Library of Trinity College, Dublin, and subject to the provisions of this section the National Library of Wales. In the case of an encyclopædia, newspaper, review, magazine, or work published in a series of numbers or parts, the written demand may include all numbers or parts of the work which may be subsequently published.

(3) The copy delivered to the trustees of the British Museum shall be a copy of the whole book with all maps and illustrations belonging thereto. finished and coloured in the same manner as the best copies of the book are published, and shall be bound, sewed, or stitched together, and on the best paper on which the book is printed.

(4) The copy delivered for the other authorities mentioned in this section shall be on the paper on which the largest number of copies of the book is printed for sale, and shall be in the like condition as the books prepared for sale.

(5) The books of which copies are to be delivered to the National Library of Wales shall not include books of such classes as may be specified in regulations to be made by the Board of Trade.

(6) If a publisher fails to comply with this section, he shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding five pounds and the value of the book, and the fine shall be paid to the trustees or authority to whom the book ought to have been delivered.

(7) For the purposes of this section, the expression "book" includes every part or division of a book, pamphlet, sheet of letter-press, sheet of music, map, plan, chart or table separately published, but shall not include any second or sub- sequent edition of a book unless such edition contains additions or alterations either in the lettterpress or in the maps, prints, or other engravings belonging thereto.

Special Provisions as to certain Works.

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to British

and other libraries.

16.-(1) In the case of a work of joint authorship, copyright shall subsist Works of during the life of the author who first dies and for a term of fifty years after his joint authors. death, or during the life of the author who dies last, whichever period is the