
1 
The provisions
of the Copyright Act 1956
specified in Part I of Schedule 1
hereto shall extend to St. Helena and its Dependencies (hereinafter referred
to as “St. Helena”) 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, and 
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 St.
Helena 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 (St. Helena) 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 
section 8, sections 22
to 30, 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 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 “the United Kingdom” there shall be substituted 
“St. Helena”.

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
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 “the
United Kingdom” there shall be substituted “St.
Helena”.for 
subsection (10) there shall be substituted
the following:—“
(10) An appeal shall lie
to the Supreme Court of St. Helena from any order made under the last preceding
subsection by a court of summary jurisdiction.”.
Section
31 Subsections (1)
and (2) shall be omitted;
in subsection (4),
for “the United Kingdom” there shall be substituted 
“St. Helena” and for “in a country”
 there shall be substituted “in the United Kingdom or
in any country other than St. Helena”.
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 St. Helena.”.
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 reference to a work shall be omitted.
Section 41 For 
subsection (7) there shall be substituted the
following:—“
(7) In this section—

 “school”
has the same meaning as in the Education Ordinance of 1941 as amended by the
Education Ordinance of 1958”; 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 “the United Kingdom” there shall be substituted 
“St. Helena”.

Section 46 Subsection (1)
shall be omitted;in subsection
(2), “(including any enactment
of the Parliament of Northern Ireland)” shall be omitted.
Section
47 For section 47
there shall be substituted the following:—“
47 

(1)  No regulations made under this Act by
the Board of Trade shall come into operation in St. Helena until such time
as may be appointed by notice given by the Governor in the St. Helena Government
Gazette.
(2) Any regulations made by the Board of
Trade in pursuance of powers conferred by this Act may be modified in their
operation in the law of St. Helena by regulations made by the Governor under
this section, and accordingly any reference in this Act to regulations made
by the Board of Trade shall be construed as a reference to those regulations
subject to such modifications (if any) as may have been made thereto in pursuance
of this section.”.
Section
48 In subsection (4),
for “the United Kingdom” there shall be substituted 
“St. Helena”.

Section 49 In subsection (2),
for “the United Kingdom” there shall be substituted 
“St. Helena”.

Section 51 For subsection (2)
there shall be substituted the following:—“
(2) 
(a)  Any Provision of this Act empowering
the Governor to make regulations shall come into operation on the commencement
of the Order in Council extending that provision to St. Helena.
(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 2
of the United Kingdom Designs (Protection) Ordinance of 1930”.


Seventh Schedule Paragraphs 6, 
24, 25, 
26, 40 and 
41 shall be omitted; in 
paragraph 46, for “the United
Kingdom” there shall be substituted “St. Helena”
.

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 “the United Kingdom”
 there shall be substituted “St. Helena”.

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

(4) In the 
Fourth Schedule—
(a) paragraphs
1 and 5
shall be omitted; and
(b) in paragraph
2, for “the aforementioned Table”
 there shall be substituted “the Table set out at the
end of this Schedule”.
3 
Modification to the 
Copyright (International Conventions) (Argentina) Order 1958:—

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