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 CANADIAN COPYRIGHT MEASURE 567

destroyed ; and any person importing, or causing or permit- Penalty ting the importation of any book in contravention of an order of the Minister shall, for each offence, be liable,upon summary conviction, to a penalty not exceeding one hun- dred dollars.

REGISTRATION

22. The Minister shall cause to be kept, at the Depart- Registers of ment, books to be called the Registers of Copyrights, in copyrights which shall be entered the names or titles of works and the names of authors, and such other particulars as may be prescribed.

(2.) The author or publisher of, or the owner of or other Registration person interested in the copyright in, any work shall cause of particulars the particulars respecting the work to be entered in the o^work register, before publication thereof or the performance or delivery thereof in public.

(3.) In the case of an encyclopaedia, newspaper, review, Registration magazine or other periodical work, or work published in a °* serial series of books or parts, it shall not be necessary to make a P'i'>"c*tioM separate entry for each number or part, but a single entry for the whole work shall suffice.

(4.) There shall also be kept at the Department such in- Indexes of dexes of the registers established under this section as may registers be prescribed.

(5.) The registers and indexes established under this sec- Registers tion shall be in the prescribed form, and shall at all reason- f^^ indexes able times be open to inspection, and any person shall be ™ Prescnbed entitled to take copies of or make extracts from any such register, and the Minister shall, if so required, give a copy Certified of an entry in any such register certified by him to be a true copies of copy, and any such certificate shall be prima facie evidence ^°^^^ of the matters thereby certified.

(6.) There shall be charged in respect of entries in regis- Fees ters the inspection of register's, taking copies of or making extracts from registers, and certificates under this section, the fees hereinafter prescribed.

(7.) Any registration made under The Copyright Act Prior shall have the same force and effect as if made under this registrations Act.