Section 285 — prescribed manner of informing rights owner of public act
71.—(1)  This regulation prescribes, for the purposes of section 285(2)(a), the means by which a rights owner of a copyright work or protected performance is to be informed of a public act.
(2)  The rights owner is to be informed by way of a person (X) giving notice on behalf of the Government.
(3)  The notice must be given —
(a)if X knows the rights owner’s name and address for service in Singapore — by service of the notice on the copyright owner;
(b)if sub‑paragraph (a) does not apply and X knows the rights owner’s name and residential or business address outside Singapore — by service of the notice by post on the rights owner; and
(c)in any other case — by advertising the notice.
(4)  A reference to the rights owner in paragraph (3) includes a reference to a person authorised by the rights owner to deal with the relevant copyright work or protected performance.
(5)  A notice under this regulation must —
(a)be given in the name of the Government;
(b)if the public act is done in relation to an article in a periodical publication (being a periodical publication which states its ISSN) — state the ISSN;
(c)if the public act is done in relation to an edition of an authorial work (being an edition that states its ISBN) — state the ISBN;
(d)if sub‑paragraphs (b) and (c) do not apply —
(i)state the title (if any) of the relevant work or performance; or
(ii)if the relevant work or performance has no title — a description of the relevant work or performance that will enable the relevant work or performance to be identified;
(e)specify the public act to which the notice relates;
(f)state whether the public act has been done by the Government or by a person authorised by the Government;
(g)where the public act has been done by a person authorised by the Government — state the name of that person; and
(h)state that the purpose of the notice is to inform the rights owner under section 285(2)(a) of the doing of the public act.