COPYRIGHT ORDINANCE, 1918

COPYRIGHT ORDINANCE, 1918

No. 9 o f 1918, repealed by NO. 23 Of 1919.

No. 10 of 1918, repealed by No. 5 of 1924.

No. 11 of 1918.

An Ordinance to modify and to add to the provisions of the
Copyright Act, 1911, in its application to the Colony of
Hong Kong.
[30th August, 1918.]

1. This Ordinance may be.cited as the Copyright Ordinance,
1918.

2. For the purpose of the application of section 14 of the
Copyright Act, 1911, to the importation into this Colony of
works made out of the Colony

(1) the Superintendent of Imports and 'Exports shall
perform the duties.and may exercise the powers thereby imposed
on or given to the Commissioners of Custerns and Excise of the
United Kingdom;

(2) regulations made by the Superintendent of Imports and
Exports under that section shall require the approval of the
Governor in Council;

(3) regulations made under that section may provide that
notices given to the Commissioners of Customs and Excise of
the United Kingdom, if communicated by them to the Super-
intendent of Imports and Exports, shall be deemed to ' have been
given by the owner of the copyright to the Superintendent of
Imports and Exports;

(4) that section shall have effe ct as if it formed part of the
Importation 'and Exportation Ordinance, 1915

3.-(1 ) Every person who knowingly-

(a) makes for sale or hire any infringing copy of a work in
which copyright subsists; or





(b) sells or lets for hire, or by way of trade exposes or offers
for sale or hire, any infringing copy oiany such work; or

(c) distributes infringing copies of any such *Work either for
the purposes of trade or to such an extent as to affect prejudicially
the owner of a copyright; or

(d) by way of trade exhibits in public any infringing copy
of any such work; or

(e) imports for sale or hire into the Colony any infringing
copy of any such,work,

shall be guilty of an offence under this Ordinance and shall upon
summary conviction be liable to a fine not exceeding twenty
dollars for every copy dealt with in contravention of this section,
but not exceeding five hundred dollars in respect of the same
transaction, or in the case of a second or subsequent offence,
either to such fine or to imprisonment for any term not exceeding
two months.

(2) Every person who knowingly makes or has in his
possession any plate for the purpose of making infringing copies
of any work in which copyright subsists, or knowingly and for
his private profit causes any such work to be performed in
public without the consent of the owner of the copyright, shall
.be guilty of an offence under this Ordinance, and shall, upon
summary conviction be liable to a fine not exceeding five hundred
dollars, or in the case of a second or subsequent offence, either
to such fine or to imprisonment for any term not exceeding two
months.

~ (3) The magistrate before whom any such proceedings are
taken may, whether the alleged offender is convicted or ' not,
order that all copies of the work or all plates in the possession
of the alleged offender, which appear to him to be infringing
copies or. plates for the purpose of making infringing* copies, be
destroyed or delivered up to the owner of the copyright or
otherwise dealt with as the magistrate may think fit.

No. 12 of 1918, repealed by No. 5 Of 1924.
[Originally No. 11 of 1918.] 1 & 2 Geo. 5, c. 46. Short title. Modifications of 1 & 2 Geo. 5, c. 46, s. 14. Ordinance No. 32 of 1915. Penalties for dealing with infringing copies, etc. 1 & 2 Geo. 5, c. 46, s. 11. [s. 3. Contd.]

[Originally No. 11 of 1918.] 1 & 2 Geo. 5, c. 46. Short title. Modifications of 1 & 2 Geo. 5, c. 46, s. 14. Ordinance No. 32 of 1915. Penalties for dealing with infringing copies, etc. 1 & 2 Geo. 5, c. 46, s. 11. [s. 3. Contd.]

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