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COPYRIGHT

Repeal

Short title and com- mencement

work shall be deemed to be published simultaneously in two places if the time between the publication in one such place and the publication in the other place does not exceed fourteen days, or such longer period as may, for the time being, be fixed by Order in Council.

(4) Where, in the case of an unpublished work, the mak- ing of a work has extended over a considerable period, the conditions of this Act conferring copyright shall be deemed to have been complied with, if the author was, during any substantial part of that period, a British subject or a resident within the parts of His Majesty's dominions to which this Act extends.

(5) For the purposes of the provisions of this Act as to residence, an author of a work shall be deemed to be a resi- dent in the parts of His Majesty's dominions to which this Act extends if he is domiciled within any such part.

36. Subject to the provisions of this Act, the enactments mentioned in the Second Schedule to this Act are hereby repealed to the extent specified in the third column of that schedule :

Provided that this repeal shall not take effect in any part of His Majesty's dominions until this Act comes into oper- ation in that part.

37. — (i) This Act may be cited as the Copyright Act, 1911.

(2) This Act shall come into operation —

(a) in the United Kingdom, on the first day of July nineteen hundred and twelve or such earlier date as may be fixed by Order in Council ;

(6) in a self-governing dominion to which this Act ex- tends, at such date as may be fixed by the Legisla- ture of that dominion;

(c) in the Channel Islands, at such date as may be fixed by the States of those islands respectively;

{d) in any other British possession to which this Act extends, on the proclamation thereof within the possession by the Governor.