Copyright Regulations 1913 (Amendment) (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES.

1954. No. 130.

 

REGULATIONS UNDER THE COPYRIGHT ACT 1912-1950.*

I, THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL in and over the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, hereby make the following Regulations under the Copyright Act 1912-1950.

Dated this fifteenth day of December, 1954

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

Attorney-General.

 

Amendments of the Copyright Regulations 1913.

Short title.

1. Regulation 1 of the Copyright Regulations is amended by omitting the figures “1913”.

Address.

2. Regulation 4 of the Copyright Regulations is amended by omitting the words “Commonwealth Offices, Treasury-place, Melbourne.” and inserting in their stead the words “Copyright Office, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory.”.

3. Regulation 9 of the Copyright Regulations is repealed and the following regulation inserted in its stead:—

Hours of business.

“9. The Copyright Office shall be open to the public from ten o’clock in the morning to four o’clock in the afternoon on each day of the week other than—

(a) a Saturday or a Sunday; or

(b) a day observed in the Australian Capital Territory as a holiday under section 76 of the Public Service Act 1922-1953.”.

Unpublished work.

4. Regulation 14 of the Copyright Regulations is amended by omitting the words “Form D” and inserting in their stead the words “Form B”.

Published mechanical musical contrivance.

5. Regulation 15 of the Copyright Regulations is amended by omitting the words “Form E” and inserting in their stead the words “Form D”.

 

* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on , 1954.

  Statutory Rules 1913, No. 338, as amended by Statutory Rules 1934, No. 78; 1936, No. 123; 1945, No. 198; 1952, No. 63; and 1954, No. 81.

4730.—Price 3d. 12.11.1954.

 

Unpublished mechanical musical contrivance.

6. Regulation 16 of the Copyright Regulations is amended by omitting the words “Form F” and inserting in their stead the words “Form E”.

Performing right in musical or dramatic work.

7. Regulation 17 of the Copyright Regulations is amended by omitting the words “Form G” and inserting in their stead the words “Form F”.

Copy of unpublished work to be forwarded.

8. Regulation 21 of the Copyright Regulations is amended by omitting the words “Regulations Nos. 19 and 21” and inserting in their stead the words “regulation 19 or regulation 20 of these Regulations”.

Statement of address.

9. Regulation 31 of the Copyright Regulations is amended—

(a) by inserting in sub-regulation (1) after the words “statement of address” the words “in accordance with Form G”;

(b)by inserting in sub-regulation (1) after the words “appointment of agent” the words “in accordance with Form H”; and

(c) by omitting sub-regulation (2) and inserting in its stead the following sub-regulation:—

“(2) The address for service shall be an address which is within the Commonwealth.”.

10. Regulation 34 of the Copyright Regulations is repealed and the following regulation inserted in its stead:—

Declarations.

“34.—(1.) A declaration required for any purpose under these Regulations may be made—

(a) in Australia—before a Notary Public, a Justice of the Peace, a Commissioner for Affidavits, a Commissioner for Declarations or a person authorized to administer oaths or to take declarations under the law of the State or Territory of the Commonwealth where the declaration is made;

(b)in a part of Her Majesty’s dominions other than Australia—before a Judge, Magistrate, Justice of the Peace, Notary Public, a Commissioner for Oaths, a Commissioner for Affidavits, an Australian Consular Office or a person authorized by the law of that part to administer oaths or take declarations; and

(c) in any other place—before a Judge of a court the jurisdiction of which is unlimited, one of Her Majesty’s Consuls or Vice-Consuls, a Notary Public, or an Australian Consular Officer.

“(2.) The title of the person before whom the declaration is made and the date when and the place where it was made shall be stated on the declaration.

“(3.) The Registrar may take notice of the signature to a declaration and of the signature of the person before whom it is made without proof of the signatures or of the fact that the person before whom the declaration is made holds the office stated on the declaration.

 

“(4.) In this regulation, “Australian Consular Officer” means a person appointed to hold or act in any of the following offices (being an office of the Commonwealth) in a country or place outside Australia:—

(a) ambassador;

(b) high commissioner;

(c) minister;

(d) head of mission;

(e) commissioner;

(f) chargé d’affaires;

(g) counsellor or secretary at an embassy, high commissioner’s office, legation or other post;

(h) consul general;

(i) consul;

(j) vice-consul;

(h) trade commissioner; and

(i) consular agent.”.

Alteration of registers.

11. Regulation 35 of the Copyright Regulations is amended by inserting after the words “a request to amend” the words “in accordance with Form K”.

Repeal of Regulation 36.

12. Regulation 36 of the Copyright Regulations is repealed.

Comptroller-General may require fuller information.

13. Regulation 36b of the Copyright Regulations is amended by omitting the word “statutory”.

Second Schedule.

14. The Second Schedule to the Copyright Regulations is amended by omitting the heading “Index to Copyright Forms” and all words appearing under that heading and before the words “Form A.”.

Second Schedule.

15. The Second Schedule to the Copyright Regulations is amended by omitting Form O and inserting in its stead the following Form:—

Copyrights

Form O.

Commonwealth of Australia.

Copyright Act 1912.

GENERAL NOTICE UNDER SECTION 10 OF THE ACT.

I, , of , being the owner [or agent of the owner] of the copyright in the work [or works] specified in the Schedule hereto, hereby give you notice that copyright in the said work [or works] now subsists and that I am [or where notice is given by the agent that is] the owner of the copyright in the said work [or works] and that I am/he is desirous that copies of the said work [or works] made printed or reprinted out of the Commonwealth shall not be imported into the Commonwealth.

Dated the day of , 19 .

(Signature)

[if an agent insert ‘ agent of owner’.]

Schedule.

Title of work (if any)—

Full description of work—

Full name of author or authors—

Whether author or authors alive—

If not, date of death—

When and where work first published—

To the Comptroller-General of Customs.

Second Schedule.

16. The Second Schedule to the Copyright Regulations is amended by omitting from Form P the words “, Canberra, F.C.T.”.

 

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