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 CANADIAN COPYRIGHT MEASURE 565

is being committed on any premises, grant a search warrant authorising the constable or peace officer named therein to enter the premises between the hours of six of the clock in the morning and nine of the clock in the evening (and, if necessary, to use force in making such entry, whether by breaking open doors or otherwise) and to seize any copies of any work or any plates in respect of which he has rea- sonable ground for suspecting that an oifence under this Act is being committed, and may, on proof that the cop- ies or plates brought before the court in pursuance of the warrant are pirated copies or plates intended to be used for the purpose of making pirated copies, order that they be destroyed or delivered up to the owner of the copyright or otherwise dealt with as the court may think fit.

IMPORTATION OF COPIES

16. Except as otherwise provided by this Act copies Importation made out of Canada of any work in which copyright sub- of copies of sists shall not be imported into Canada and shall be copyright deemed to be included in Schedule C to The Customs Tariff, and that Schedule shall apply accordingly.

works

17. If a book in which there is subsisting copyright has If copyright been published in any part of His Majesty's dominions, owner other than Canada, and if it is proved to the satisfaction of 'icenses the Minister that the owner of the copyright has granted j^ Canada*"* a license to reproduce in Canada, from movable or other the Minister types, or from stereotype plates, or from electroplates, or may prohibit from lithograph stones, or by any process for facsimile re- importation production, an edition or editions of such book designed °'/'°*'fs for sale only in Canada, the Minister may, notwithstand- elsewhere ing anything in this Act, by order under his hand prohibit the importation into Canada, except with the written con- sent of the licensee, of any copies of such book printed else- where: Provided that two such copies may be specially Proviso imported for the bona fide use of any public free library or any university or college library, or for the library of any duly incorporated institution or society for the use of the members of such institution or society.