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THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, JANUARY 30, 1931. 43

COLONIAL SECRETARY'S DEPARTMENT.

No. 57. The following Order of His Majesty in Council, is published for general information.

30th January 1931.

E. R. HALLIFAX,

Colonial Secretary.

STATUTORY RULES AND ORDERS, 1930, No. 899.

COPYRIGHT.

THE COPYRIGHT (IRISH FREE STATE) ORDER, 1930.

AT THE COURT AT BUCKINGHAM PALACE,

THE 27TH DAY OF OCTOBER, 1930.

PRESENT,

THE KING'S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY.

LORD PRESIDENT.

LORD CHELMSFORD.

MR. SECRETARY ADAMSON.

HON. J. H. SCULLIN,

HON. R. B. BENNETT.

HON. G. W. FORBES. HON. SIR R. A. SQUIRES.

HEREAS by Section 26, subsection (3) of the Copyright Act, 1911, (a) it is pro- vided that if His Majesty in Council is satisfied that the law of a self-governing Dominion to which the said Act does not extend provides adequate protection within the Dominion for the works (whether published or unpublished) of authors who at the time of the making of the work were British subjects resident elsewhere than in that Dominion, His Majesty in Council may, for the purpose of giving reciprocal protection, direct that the said Act, except such parts (if any) thereof as may be specified in the Order and subject to any conditions contained therein, shall, within the parts of His Majesty's Dominions to which the said Act extends, apply to works the authors whereof were, at the time of the making of the work, resident between the first-mentioned Domi- nion, and to works first published in that Dominion:

And whereas by Order of His Majesty in Council dated the 27th day of October, 1930, (b) it is provided that the Irish Free State is to be deemed to be a self-governing Dominion for the purposes of the Copyright Act, 1911:

And whereas His Majesty in Council is satisfied that the law of the Irish Free State (that is to say, the Industrial and Commercial Property (Protection) Act, 1927, Number 16 of 1927, the Industrial and Commercial Property (Protection) (Amendment) Act, 1929, Number 13 of 1929, and an Order of the Governor General in Council thereunder entitled the Copyright (United Kingdom and British Dominions) Order, 1930) provides adequate protection for the works (whether published or unpublished) of authors who at the time of the making of the works were British subjects resident in the parts of His Majesty's Dominions to which this Order applies:

(a) 1-2 G. 5, c. 46.

(4) SR. & O. 1930, No. 898.