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1914.] (Received the assent of the Governor General on the 24th February, 1914.)

An Act to, modify and add to the provisions of the Copyright Act, 1911. HEREAS it is expedient to modify and add to the provisions of the Copyright Act, 1911, in its application to British India ; It is hereby enacted as follows:—

CHAPTER I.

(1) This Act may be called the Indian Copyright Act, 1914.

(2). It extends to the whole of British India including British Baluchistan, the District of Angul and the Sonthal Parganas.

In this Act, unless there is anything repugnant in the subject or context,— (1) "the Copyright Act means the Act of 1 & 2 Geo. Parliament entitled the Copyright Act, 1911: and

(2) words and expressions defined in the Copyright Act have the same meanings as in that Act.

CHAPTER II.

In the application to British India of the Copyright Act a copy of which Act, except such of the provisions thereof as are expressly restricted to the