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Draft Copyright Regulations.

Regulations made by the Superintendent of Imports and Exports under section 14 of the Copyright Act, 1911, 1 & 2 Geo, 5, c. 46, as modified by section 2 of the Copyright Ordinance, 1918, Ordinance No. of 1918, on the and approved by the Governor in Council on the

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1. The notice in writing to be given to the Superintendent of Imports and Export- (hereinafter referred to as the said Superintendent) under section 14 of the Copyrighs Act, 1911, as modified by section 2 of the Copyright Ordinance, 1918, by the owner of the copyright in any book or other printed work in which copyright subsists under the Copyt right Act, 1911, or his agent, who is desirous that copies thereof printed or reprinted out of the Colony shall not be imported into the Colony, shall be in the Form No. 1 of the Schedule hereto or as near thereto as circumstances permit.

2. The notice in writing to be given to the said Superintendent under section 14 of the Copyright Act, 1911, as modified by section 2 of the Copyright Ordinance, 1918, by the owner of the copyright in any work (other than a book or other printed work) in which copyright subsists under the Copyright Act, 1911, or his agent, who is desirous that copies thereof made out of the Colony shall not be imported into the Colony, may be either a general notice in the Form No. 2 in the Schedule hereto or as near thereto as circumstances permit or a special notice in the Form No. 3 in the same Schedule relating to a particular importation.

3. Every notice given in pursuance of these Regulations in the Form No. 1 or No. 2 in the Schedule hereto shall be accompanied by a statutory declaration in the Form No. 4 in the same Schedule.

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 if so required by a statufory 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 money 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 sureties 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.

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"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."