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 AUSTRALIAN COPYRIGHT ACT 583

office shall be established which shall be called the Copy- Copyright right Office. Office

11. Seal of Copyright Office. — There shall be a seal of Seal the Copyright Office, and impressions thereof shall be judicially noticed.

Division 2. — The Transfer of the Administration of the State Copyright Acts

12. Transfer of administration. — The Governor-Gen- Transfer of eral may, by proclamation, declare that, from and after a administra- date specified in the proclamation, the administration of ^°'^

the State Copyright Acts of any State so far as they relate to the registration of the copyright in any book, the per- forming right in any musical or dramatic work, the lectur- ing right in any lecture, and the copyright in any artistic or fine art work, or to the registration of any assignment or grant of, or licence in relation to, any such right, shall be transferred to the Commonwealth and thereupon, so far as is necessary for the purposes of this section —

(a) Effect of transfer of administration. Cf. Patents Act, Effect of 1903, 55. 18 and 19. — The State Copyright Acts of transfer the State shall cease to be administered by the State, and shall thereafter be administered by the Com- monwealth so far as is necessary for the purpose of completing then pending proceedings and of giving effect to then existing rights, and the Registrar shall collect for the State all fees which become paya- ble thereunder; and (6) all powers and functions under any State Copyright Act vested in the Governor of the State or in the Governor with the advice of the Executive Council of the State or in any Minister officer or authority of the State shall vest in the Governor-General or in the Governor-General in Council or in the Minister officer or authority exercising similar powers under the Commonwealth as the case requires or as is pre- scribed ; and (c) all records registers deeds and documents of the Copyright office of the State vested in or subject to