56409-1918-Copyright-Regulations — Page 2

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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, SEPTEMBER 20, 1918.

4. Before any article which appears, or is alleged, to be a copy of a work to which a notice applies is detained, or any further proceedings with a view to the forfeiture thereof under the law relating thereto are taken, the person who signed the notice whether as owner or agent shall, if required so to do, give to the said Superintendent in writing such further information and evidence, verified it so required by a statutory declaration, as he considers necessary to satisfy him that the article in question is liable to detention and forfeiture.

5. In the case of any detention in consequence of a notice in the Form No. 3 given to the said Superintendent the person who signed the notice whether as owner or agent must if so required deposit with the Superintendent a sum of monev sufficient in the opinion of the said Superintendent to cover any expense which may be incurred in the examination required by reason of his notice of the goods detained, and if upon the examination of the goods the said Superintendent is satisfied that there is no ground for their detention, they will be released.

6. If any goods are placed under detention in consequence of any notice given in pursuance of these Regulations, the said Superintendent may require the person who signed the notice to give an undertaking in writing to reimburse him all expenses and damages incurred in respect of the detention, and of any proceedings for forfeiture subsequently taken if such an undertaking has not already been given, and may also require him within four days after the detention to enter into a bond with two approved suretics in such form and for such amount as the said Superintendent may require.

7. Any deposit of money previously made will be returned on the completion of the bond.

8. The notice to be given under section 14 of the Copyright Act, 1911, may, instead of being given to the Superintendent of Imports and Exports, be given to the Commis- sioners of Customs and Excise of the United Kingdom, and if so given and communicated by the said Commissioners to the Superintendent shall be deemed to have been given to the Superintendent.

9. In these Regulations "Owner of the Copyright" has the same meaning as in Section 14 of the Copyright Act, 1911.

"Book or other printed work" means every part or division of a book, pamphlet, sheet of letterpress, sheet of music, map, plan, chart, or table separately published.

of

Schedule.

FORM No. 1.

Notice.

Relating to Copyright Books and other printed works.

To the Superintendent of Imports and Exports.

I.

hereby give you notice that copyright in the original work (1) mentioned in the Schedule hereto now subsists under the Copyright Act, 1911, and that (2)

work (1) and that (3)

(1) or works. (2) If notice is given by the owner insert

if given by an insert name of owner and the word is".

the owner of the copyright in the said am

desirous that copies of the said agent work (1) printed or reprinted out of the Colony shall not be imported (8) "I am" "he into the Colony.

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Or

Dated this...........................day of..............

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Signature........

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(4) If an agent in- sert "Agent of Owner".