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THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, JUNE 26, 1931.

NOTICES.

463

COLONIAL SECRETARY'S Department

No. 394.-The following Order of His Majesty in Council is published for general information.

26th June, 1931.

W. T. SOUTHORN,

Colonial Secretary.

STATUTORY RULES AND ORDERS, 1931, No. 105.

COPYRIGHT.

THE COPYRIGHT (FEDERATED MALAY STATES) Order, 1931.

AT THE COURT AT BUCKINGHAM PALACE,

THE 12TH DAY OF FEBRUARY, 1931.

PRESENT:

THE KING'S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY.

EARL OF DESART.

MR. SECRETARY HENDERSON.

SIR CHARLES TREVELYAN.

SIR DINSHAH MULLA.

MR. KENNEDY,

MR. MORRISON.

WHEREAS by the Copyright Act, 1911, (a) authority is conferred upon His Majesty

to extend by Order in Council the protection of the said Act to certain classes of foreign works within any part of His Majesty's dominions, other than self-governing dominions, to which the said Act extends:

And whereas His Majesty is satisfied that the Rules of the Federated Malay States have made, or have undertaken to make, such provisions as it appears to His Majesty expedient to require for the protection of works entitled to copyright under the provi- sions of Part I of the said Act:

Now, therefore, His Majesty, by and with the advice of His Privy Council, and by virtue of the authority conferred upon Him by the Copyright Act, 1911, is pleased to order and it is hereby ordered as follows:--

1. The Copyright Act, 1911, including the provisions as to existing works, shall subject to the provisions of the said Act and of this Order apply-

(a) to works first published in the Federated Malay States, in like manner as if they had been first published within the parts of His Majesty's dominions to which the said Act extends;

(b) to literary, dramatic, musical and artistic works the authors whereof were at the time of the making of the work subjects of the Rulers of the Fede- rated Malay States, in like manner as if the authors had been British subjects;

(c) in respect of residence in the Federated Malay States, in like manner as if such residence had been residence in the parts of His Majesty's dominions to which the said Act extends.

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