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COPYRIGHT

42. No person shall be entitled to copyright or any simi- lar right in any literary, dramatic, musical or artistic work otherwise than under and in accordance with the provi- sions of this Act, or of any other statutory enactment for the time being in force.

Orders in Council

Publication

Laid before Parliament

43. The Governor in Council may make orders for alter- ing, revoking, or varying any order in council made under this Act, but any order made under this section shall not affect prejudicially any rights or interests acquired or ac- crued at the date when the order comes into operation, and shall provide for the protection of such rights and in- terests.

(2.) Every order in council made under this Act shall be published in The Canada Gazette, and shall be laid before Parliament as soon as may be after it is made, and shall have effect as if enacted in this Act.

Repeal of

certain

enactments

44. Subject to the provisions of this Act, the enact- ments mentioned in the Second Schedule to this Act are, so far as they are operative in Canada, hereby repealed to the extent specified in the third column of that Schedule.

Repeal 45. Chapter 70 of the Revised Statutes, 1906, and chap-

ter 17 of the statutes of 1908, are repealed.

Commence- 46. This Act shall come into force on a day to be named mentof Act by proclamation of the Governor General.