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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 30т¤ OCTOBER, 1886. 975

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.-No. 422.

The following Circular Despatch and its enclosures are published for general information.

By Command,

Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 30th October, 1886.

FREDERICK STEWART,

Acting Colonial Secretary,

CIRCULAR (2).

1980 Vic., Cap. 33.

Parly. Paper, C. 1606, 1886.

DOWNING STREET,

31st August, 1886.

SIR,-I have the honour to transmit to you, for publication in the Colony under your Government, a copy of the International Copyright Act, passed in the last session of Parliament.

I have also the honour to transmit to you copies of the Parliamentary Papers Parly. Paper, C. 4856, 1886. noted in the margin, respecting the formation of an International Copyright

Union.

The Officer Administering the Government of

I have the honour to be,

Sir,

Your most obedient humble Servant,

EDWARD STANHOPE.

HONGKONG.

CHAPTER 33.

An Act to amend the Law respecting International and Colonial Copyright.

[25th June 1886.]

HEREAS by the International Copyright Acts Her Majesty is authorised by

literary and artistic works first

published in a foreign country the author shall have copyright therein during the period specified in the order, not exceeding the period during which authors of the like works first published in the United Kingdom have copyright:

And whereas at an international conference held at Berne in the month of September one thousand eight hundred and eighty-five a draft of a convention was agreed to for giving to authors of literary and artistic works first published in one of the countries parties to the convention copyright in such works throughout the other countries parties

the convention:

And whereas, without the authority of Parliament, such convention cannot be arried into effect in Her Majesty's dominions and consequently Her Majesty cannot become a party thereto, and it is expedient to enable Her Majesty to accede to the Convention:

Be it therefore enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:

1.-(1.) This Act may be cited as the International Copyright Act, 1886. (2.) The Acts specified in the first part of the First Schedule to this Act are in ais Act referred to and may be cited by the short titles in that schedule mentioned, and those Acts, together with the enactment specified in the second part of the said schedule, are in this Act collectively referred to as the International Copyright Acts.

The Acts specified in the Second Schedule to this Act may be cited by the short titles in that schedule mentioned, and those Acts are in this Act referred to, and may be cited collectively as the Copyright Acts.

(3.) This Act and the International Copyright Acts shall be construed together, and

may be cited together as the International Copyright Acts, 1841 to 1886.

A.D. 1886.

Short titles and com struction.