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Short title and commencement

1.—(1) This Act is the Copyright Act 2021 and comes into operation on a date that the Minister appoints by notification in the Gazette.

(2) For the purposes of subsection (1), the same date must be appointed for all the provisions of this Act except—
 * (a) Division 2 of Part 9 and section 507(4)(c) (licensing of collective management organisations); and
 * (b) sections 501(2) and (3) and 507(10) (jurisdiction of General Division of High Court).

Application to things existing before appointed day

2. Unless it expressly provides otherwise, this Act applies to a thing existing on the appointed day as it applies to a thing coming into existence after that day.

Extension of Act to reciprocating countries

3.—(1) Subject to subsection (2), regulations may prescribe that—
 * (a) a country is a reciprocating country; and
 * (b) this Act is extended so as to apply in relation to the country or its nationals—
 * (i) generally or for specified classes of cases; and
 * (ii) with or without modifications or exceptions.

(2) A country may be prescribed as a reciprocating country only if—
 * (a) in relation to works protected by copyright under the provisions of this Act—
 * (i) the country and Singapore are both parties to a treaty, convention or other international agreement relating to copyright; or