Application of Division 2 of Part 12 of Act
23.—(1)  This regulation applies where an authorial work was made before 1 July 1912 and one of the following sub‑paragraphs applies:
(a)the work was first published or first performed in a reciprocating country;
(b)the work is unpublished and —
(i)the author of the work was a citizen, national or resident of a reciprocating country when the work was made; or
(ii)the author of the work was a citizen, national or resident of a reciprocating country for a substantial part of the period during which the work was made;
(c)the work is published and the author of the work was a citizen, national or resident of a reciprocating country when the work was first published.
(2)  In applying Division 2 of Part 12 of the Act to the work —
(a)the 1911 Act is taken to apply to an authorial work to which paragraph (1)(a) applies in the same way as that Act applies to an authorial work first published or first performed in Singapore; and
(b)the 1911 Act is taken to apply to an authorial work to which paragraph (1)(b) or (c) applies in the same way as that Act applies to an authorial work of which the author is a citizen or resident of Singapore.