No. S 486
Copyright Act
(Chapter 63)
Copyright (International Protection) (Amendment) Regulations 1996
In exercise of the powers conferred by sections 184 and 202 of the Copyright Act, the Minister for Law hereby makes the following Regulations:
1.  These Regulations may be cited as the Copyright (International Protection) (Amendment) Regulations 1996 and shall come into operation on 15th November 1996.
2.  Regulation 2 of the Copyright (International Protection) Regulations (Rg 2) (referred to in these Regulations as the principal Regulations) is amended —
(a)by deleting the word “and” at the end of paragraph (a)(ii) of the definition of “at a material time” in paragraph (1);
(b)by inserting, at the end of paragraph (b) of the definition of “at a material time” in paragraph (1), the word “and”, and by inserting immediately thereafter the following paragraph:
“(c)in relation to a sound broadcast or a television broadcast — at the time when that broadcast was made;”;
(c)by deleting the full-stop at the end of the definition of “country of origin” in paragraph (1) and substituting a semi-colon, and by inserting immediately thereafter the following definition:
“ “relevant broadcaster” means a broadcasting organisation that —
(a)has its headquarters in the country from which the sound broadcast or the television broadcast, as the case may be, is made; and
(b)is entitled under the law of that country to make the sound broadcast or the television broadcast, as the case may be.”;”;
(d)by deleting paragraph (2) and substituting the following paragraphs:
“(2)  Subject to paragraph (2A), a reference in these Regulations to a subject-matter other than a work shall be read as a reference to a sound recording, a cinematograph film, a published edition of a work or works, a sound broadcast or a television broadcast.
(3)  The references in paragraphs (a) and (b) of the definition of “at a material time” in paragraph (1) to a subject-matter other than a work shall not include a sound broadcast or a television broadcast.”.
(e)by deleting the words “Hong Kong,” in the fourth line of paragraph (3)(b).
3.  Regulation 3 of the principal Regulations is amended by inserting, immediately after paragraph (5), the following paragraph:
“(6)  Subject to these Regulations, the provisions of the Act shall apply in relation to a sound broadcast or a television broadcast that has been made, at a material time, by a relevant broadcaster from a place in a country that constitutes, or forms part of, the territory of a country specified in the Schedule in like manner as those provisions shall apply in relation to a sound broadcast or a television broadcast made by a broadcasting licensee from a place in Singapore.”.
4.  Regulation 6 of the principal Regulations is deleted and the following regulation substituted therefor:
“Application of certain provisions of Act to works, etc., of certain countries. U.K. 1911 C. 46
6.  Where a work was first published before 10th April 1987 in any country specified in the Schedule, section 210 of the Act shall apply to the work as if, for the purpose of determining, for the purpose of that section, whether copyright subsisted in a work under the Copyright Act 1911* immediately before 10th April 1987, the work was first published in Singapore.”.
5.  The Schedule to the principal Regulations is deleted and the following Schedule substituted therefor:
“THE SCHEDULE
Regulations 2, 3, 5, 7 and 8.
Antigua and Barbuda
Argentina
Australia
Austria
Bahrain
Bangladesh
Barbados
Belgium
Belize
Benin
Bolivia
Botswana
Brazil
Brunei Darussalam
Burkina Faso
Burundi
Cameroon
Canada
Central African Republic
Chad
Chile
Colombia
Costa Rica
Cote d’Ivoire
Cuba
Cyprus
Czech Republic
Denmark
Djibouti
Dominica
Dominican Republic
Ecuador
Egypt
El Salvador
European Community
Fiji
Finland
France
Gabon
Gambia
Germany
Ghana
Greece
Grenada
Guatemala
Guinea
Guinea Bissau
Guyana
Haiti
Honduras
Hong Kong
Hungary
Iceland
India
Indonesia
Ireland
Israel
Italy
Jamaica
Japan
Kenya
Kuwait
Lesotho
Liechtenstein
Luxembourg
Macau
Madagascar
Malawi
Malaysia
Maldives
Mali
Malta
Mauritania
Mauritius
Mexico
Morocco
Mozambique
Myanmar
Namibia
Netherlands — for the Kingdom in Europe and for the Netherlands Antilles
New Zealand
Nicaragua
Nigeria
Norway
Pakistan
Papua New Guinea
Paraguay
Peru
Philippines
Poland
Portugal
Qatar
Republic of Korea
Romania
Rwanda
Saint Kitts and Nevis
Saint Lucia
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
Senegal
Sierra Leone
Slovak Republic
Slovenia
Solomon Islands
South Africa
Spain
Sri Lanka
Suriname
Swaziland
Sweden
Switzerland
Thailand
Togo
Trinidad and Tobago
Tunisia
Turkey
Uganda
United Arab Emirates
United Kingdom
United Republic of Tanzania
United States of America
Uruguay
Venezuela
Zambia
Zimbabwe.”.
Made this 8th day of November 1996.
GOH KIM LEONG
Permanent Secretary,
Ministry of Law,
Singapore.
[LAW 30/001/001; AG/B/19/95/2]
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