
1 
The provisions
of the Copyright Act 1956
specified in Part I of Schedule 1
hereto shall extend to the Falkland Islands and its Dependencies (hereinafter
together referred to as “the Falkland Islands”
) subject to the modifications specified in 
Part II of that Schedule.
2 
The 
Copyright (International Conventions) Order 1957, as amended , the 
Copyright (International Conventions) (Argentina) Order 1958, the 
Copyright (International Organisations) Order 1957, as amended ,
and the Copyright (Broadcasting
Organisations) Order 1961 (being Orders in Council made under 
Part V of the said Act) shall extend to the
Falkland Islands subject to the relevant modifications specified in 
Schedule 2 hereto.
3 
The 
Interpretation Act 1889 shall apply to the
interpretation of this Order as it applies to the interpretation of an Act
of Parliament.
4 
This Order may be cited as the 
Copyright (Falkland Islands) Order 1963 and
shall come into operation on 10th June 1963.
W. G. Agnew

SCHEDULE 1
PART I
All the provisions of the 
Copyright Act 1956 as amended by the Dramatic and Musical Performers'
Protection Act 1958 and the 
Films Act 1960, except sections 32
, 34, 
35, 42 and 
44 and the Fourth
and Fifth Schedules.

PART II
The provisions mentioned in the first column in
the following table shall be modified in the manner specified in the second
column.

Provision
 Modification

Section 7 For the references to the Board of Trade there shall be substituted
references to the Governor in Council.
Section 8 In 
subsections (1) and (10),
for “United Kingdom” there shall be substituted 
“Falkland Islands”; for 
subsection (3) there shall be substituted the
following:—“
(3) If at any time the
Board of Trade by order made under this subsection in its operation in the
law of the United Kingdom prescribe for the purposes of this section, either
generally or in relation to any one or more classes of records, any different
rate of, or minimum amount of, royalty the provisions of this section shall
be construed subject to the provisions of any such order as is for the time
being in force.”;in subsection (4),
for paragraph (a) there
shall be substituted the following:—“
(a) the minimum amount
of royalty shall be three-farthings in respect of each of those works; and”;
in subsection (11),
for the references to the Board of Trade there shall be substituted references
to the Governor in Council.

Section 10 For subsection (5)
there shall be substituted the following:—“
(5) For the purposes of
this section a design shall be taken as being applied industrially if it is
applied in the circumstances for the time being prescribed by rules made by
the Board of Trade under this section and section
thirty-six of the Registered Designs
Act 1949, as extended by this section in the
law of the United Kingdom.”.
Section
12 In subsection (6),
for “United Kingdom” there shall be substituted 
“Falkland Islands”.
Section 13 For 
subsection (3) there shall be substituted the
following:—“
(3) Copyright subsisting
in a cinematograph film by virtue of this section shall continue to subsist
until the film is published and thereafter until the end of the period of
fifty years from the end of the calendar year which includes the date of its
first publication and shall then expire, or, if copyright subsists in the
film by virtue only of the last preceding subsection, it shall continue to
subsist as from the date of first publication until the end of the period
of fifty years from the end of the calendar year which includes that date
and shall then expire.”;in subsection (8),
for “any such film as is mentioned in 
paragraph (a) of subsection (1) of section thirty-eight
of the Films Act 1960 (which
relates to newsreels)” there shall be substituted “any
film consisting wholly or mainly of photographs which, at the time they were
taken, were means of communicating news”; 
subsection (11) shall be omitted.
Section
15 In subsection (4),
for “Board of Trade” there shall be substituted 
“Governor in Council”.
Section 17 Subsection
(6) shall be omitted.
Section 18 In 
subsection (1), the reference to any corresponding
provision which may be enacted by the Parliament of Northern Ireland shall
be omitted; subsection (4)
shall be omitted.

Section 21 In subsections (1)
and (6), for “United
Kingdom” there shall be substituted “Falkland Islands”
;for subsection
(10) there shall be substituted the following:—
“
(10) An appeal shall lie
to the Supreme Court from any order made under the last preceding subsection
by a court of summary jurisdiction.”.
Section
22 In subsection
(1), for “the Commissioners of
Customs and Excise (in this section referred to as 
“the Commissioners”)” there shall
be substituted “the Collector of Customs” and,
subject to the modification in subsection (4)
 hereinafter specified, for subsequent references
in the section to the Commissioners there shall be substituted references
to the said Collector;in 
subsections (2) and (3),
for “United Kingdom” there shall be substituted 
“Falkland Islands”in 
subsection (4), for “the Commissioners”
 on the first occasion where those words occur, there shall be substituted 
“the Governor in Council” and for “the Commissioners
consider” there shall be substituted “the Governor
in Council considers”;for 
subsection (6) there shall be substituted the
following:—“
(6) Any fees paid in pursuance
of regulations made under this section shall be treated as monies collected
on account of the general revenue.”;in subsection (7),
for the references to the Customs and Excise Act 1952
there shall be substituted references to the Customs Ordinance (Cap. 16).


Section 23 For subsections (2)
and (3) there shall be substituted
the following subsections:—“
(2) The tribunal shall
be appointed by the Governor in Council, who shall determine the number of
members, the conditions of their appointment and the remuneration, if any,
to be paid to them;

(3) The Governor in Council shall
make such rules as he thinks expedient to govern the procedure of the tribunal,
and in particular, but without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing
provisions, shall make rules as to the procedure in connection with the making
of references to and application to the tribunal and for regulating proceedings
before the tribunal and as to the fees chargeable in respect of those proceedings.”;
subsections (4), 
(5), (6) and 
(7) shall be omitted.
Section 24 In 
subsection (3) (c), for “the Corporation
or the Authority or any organisation appointed by them or either of them,
in accordance with the provisions of the Fifth
Schedule to this Act” there shall
be substituted “any persons or classes of persons lawfully authorised
to broadcast to the public in the Falkland Islands”.
Section
28 In subsections (1), 
(2) and (4),
for “United Kingdom” there shall be substituted 
“Falkland Islands” and for “the Corporation
and the Authority” there shall be substituted the words 
“any persons or classes of persons lawfully authorised to broadcast
to the public in the Falkland Islands”.
Section 30 In the proviso to 
subsection (1), for “made under
the Fourth Schedule
to this Act” there shall be substituted “made by
the Governor in Council”;for 
subsection (6) there shall be substituted the
following:—“
(6) In this section “the court” means 
the Supreme Court.”.
Section
31 Subsections (1)
and (2) shall be omitted;
in subsection (4),
for “United Kingdom” there shall be substituted 
“Falkland Islands” and for “in a country”
 there shall be substituted “in the United Kingdom or
in any country other than the Falkland Islands”.
Section
33 For subsection (1)
there shall be substituted the following:—“
(1) An organisation to
which this section applies is one declared to be such by an Order in Council
made under this section as part of the law of the United Kingdom which has
been extended, in relation to that organisation, to the Falkland Islands.”.

Section
37 Subsection (4)
shall be omitted.

Section 40 Subsection (3)
shall be omitted;in subsection
(4), for “either of the two last
preceding subsections” there shall be substituted “the
last preceding subsection” and “or the programme
to be transmitted, as the case may be” shall be omitted;in subsection (5),
the references to a work shall be omitted.
Section 41 For 
subsection (7) there shall be substituted the
following:—“
(7) In this section—

 “school”
means a recognised school as defined in the Education
Ordinance (Cap. 22); and
 “duplicating process”
 means any process involving the use
of an appliance for producing multiple copies.”.
Section
43 In subsections (2), 
(4) and (6),
for “United Kingdom” there shall be substituted 
“Falkland Islands”.
Section 46 Subsection
(1) shall be omitted; in 
subsection (2), “(including any
enactment of the Parliament of Northern Ireland)” shall be omitted.


Section 47 The whole section except subsection
(4) shall be omitted.
Section 48 In 
subsection (1), there shall be added the following
definitions:—“

 “Falkland Islands”
means the Falkland Islands and its Dependencies;
 “Governor”
means the person for the time being lawfully administering
the Government of the Falkland Islands;
 “Governor in Council”
 means the Governor acting with the advice
and consent of the Executive Council of the Falkland Islands, but not necessarily
acting in such Council assembled nor necessarily in accordance with such advice;

”
 means the Governor acting with the advice
and consent of the Executive Council of the Falkland Islands, but not necessarily
acting in such Council assembled nor necessarily in accordance with such advice;
in subsection (4),
for “United Kingdom” there shall be substituted 
“Falkland Islands”.
Section 49 In 
subsection (2), for “United Kingdom”
 there shall be substituted “Falkland Islands”
.

Section 51 For subsection (2)
there shall be substituted the following:—“
(2) 
(a) Any provision of this Act empowering
the Governor in Council to make rules or regulations shall come into operation
on the commencement of the Order in Council extending that provision to the
Falkland Islands.
(b) All the other provisions of this Act
shall come into operation on 10th October 1963.”;subsection (3)
shall be omitted.

First Schedule In paragraph 2,
for “section seven
of the Act of 1949” there shall be substituted “
section two of the United Kingdom Designs (Protection)
Ordinance (Cap. 75)”.
Seventh Schedule Paragraphs
40 and 41
shall be omitted; in paragraph 46,
for “United Kingdom” there shall be substituted 
“Falkland Islands”.
Ninth Schedule For the table therein set out there
shall be substituted the following:—

ENACTMENTS REPEALED
Session and Chapter Short Title Extent of Repeal
1 & 2 Geo. 5. c. 46. The Copyright Act 1911.
 The whole Act.

18 & 19 Geo. 5. c. lii. The Copyright Order Confirmation
(Mechanical Instruments: Royalties) Act 1928.
 The Whole Act.

SCHEDULE 2
1 
Modification to all the Orders in Council:—

Any reference in any of the Orders to its commencement shall be
deemed to be a reference to 10th October 1963.
2 
Modifications to the 
Copyright (International Conventions) Order 1957:—

(1) In Article
1, for “United Kingdom”
 there shall be substituted “Falkland Islands”
.
(2) In Article
2, for the reference to the making of the Order
there shall be substituted a reference to its extension to the Falkland Islands.

(3) In Article
3, for “United Kingdom”
 there shall be substituted “Falkland Islands”
.
(4) In the 
Fourth Schedule, paragraph 5 shall be omitted.

3 
Modification to the 
Copyright (International Conventions) (Argentina) Order 1958:—

In the Schedule, paragraphs 1
and 2 shall be omitted.
