The Copyright (International Conventions) (Amendment) Order 1986
Date
1986Author
Her Majesty's Stationary Office
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Abstract
This Order corrects an error In the Copyright (International Conventions)
(Amendment) Order 1984, which amended the Copyright (International
Conventions) Order 1979. The 1984 Order applied the Copyright Act 1956 to
copyright works from Belize as a result of That country's accession to the
Universal Copyright Convention (Cmnd. 4905); but because of the provisions
of Article VII of that Convention, which excludes from the Convention's
protection works published before the accession of the country in question, the
1984 Order did not apply the 1956 Act to works from Belize published before
its accession. This, however, was inappropriate for a former dependency of the
United Kingdom to which the 1956 Act had previously been extended (the
Copyright (British Honduras) Order 1966 (S.l. 1966/685)). Article 2 therefore
causes the 1956 Act to apply once again to works published before the accession
of Belize.