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 148 Copyright Act, loU.

��§ 26 (3). purpose of giving reciprocal protection, direct that " this Act, except such parts (if any) thereof as may

be specified in the Order, and subject to any conditions contained therein, shall, within the parts of His Majesty's dominions to which this Act extends, appl}' to works the authors whereof were, at the time of the making of the work, resident within the first-mentioned dominion, and to works first published in that dominion ; but, save as provided by such an ( Jrder, works the authors Avhereof were resident in a dominion to which this iVct does not extend shall not, whether they are British subjects or not, be entitled to any protection under this Act except such protec- tion as is by this Act conferred on works first published within the parts of His Majesty's dominions to which this Act extends :

Provided that no such Order shall confer any rights within a self-governing dominion, but the Governor in Council of any self-governing- dominion to which this Act extends, may, by Order, confer within that dominion the like rights as His Majesty in Council is, under the foregoing provisions of this subsection, authorised to confer within other parts of His Majesty's dominions.

For the purposes of this subsection, the expres- sion "a don)inion to which this Act extends" includes a dominion which is for the purposes of this Act to be treated as if it were a dominion to which this Act extends.

LeSatLes ^'^ ' '^^^^^ Legislature of any British possession of British to which this Act cxtcnds may modify or add to

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