§ 309 Schedule 1, page 136, line 41, leave out paragraph 35 and insert—
§ '35—(1) The 1911 Act shall remain in force as part of the law of any dependent territory in which it was in force immediately before commencement until—
- (a) the new copyright provisions come into force in that territory by virtue of an Order under section 152 of this Act (power to extend new copyright provisions), or
- (b) in the case of any of the Channel Islands, the Act is repealed by Order under sub-paragraph (3) below.
§ (2) An Order in Council in force immediately before commencement which extends to any dependent territory any provisions of the 1956 Act shall remain in force as part of the law of that country until—
- (a) the new copyright provisions come into force in that territory by virtue of an Order under section 152 of this Act (power to extend new copyright provisions), or
- (b) in the case of the Isle of Man, the Order is revoked by Order under sub-paragraph (3) below;
§ (3) If it appears to Her Majesty that provision with respect to copyright has been made in the law of any of the Channel Islands or the Isle of Man otherwise than by extending the provisions of Part I of this Act, Her Majesty may by Order in Council repeal the 1911 Act as it has effect as part of the law of that territory or, as the case may be, revoke the Order extending the 1956 Act there.
§ (4) A dependent territory in which the 1911 or 1956 Act remains in force shall be treated, in the law of the countries to which Part I extends, as a country to which that Part extends; and those countries shall be treated in the law of such a territory as countries to which the 1911 Act or, as the case may be, the 1956 Act extends.
§ (5) If a country in which the 1911 or 1956 Act is in force ceases to be a colony of the United Kingdom, section 153 of this Act (consequences of country ceasing to be colony) applies with the substitution for the reference in subsection (3)(b) to the provisions of Part I of this Act of a reference to the provisions of the 1911 or 1956 Act, as the case may be.
§ (6) In this paragraph "dependent territory" means any of the Channel Islands, the Isle of Man or any colony.'.
§ 11.45 p.m.
§ Lord Young of GraffhamMy Lords, I beg to move that the House do agree with the Commons in their Amendment No. 309.
§ Moved, That the House do agree with the Commons in their Amendment No. 309.—(Lord Young of Graffham.)