
1 
This Order may be cited as the 
Copyright (British Indian Ocean Territory) Order 1984
and shall come into operation on 14th May 1984.
2 
In this Order 
“the Territory” means the
British Indian Ocean Territory.
3 
The provisions of the 
Copyright Act 1956 specified in 
Part I of the Schedule hereto shall extend
to the Territory subject to the modifications, specified in 
Part II of that Schedule.
4 
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 Territory.
N.E. Leigh
Clerk of the Privy Council

SCHEDULE
Article 3
PART I
All the provisions of the Act, as amended by the Performers' Protection Acts 1958
and 1963
the Films Act 1960,
the Design Copyright Act 1968
, the 
Statute Law (Repeals) Act 1974, the Criminal Law Act 1977,
the Broadcasting Act 1981,
the British Nationality
(Modification of Enactments) Order 1982, the Copyright Act 1956 (Amendment) Act 1982
, the 
Criminal Justice Act 1982 and the Copyright (Amendment) Act 1983,
except sections 23 to 30, 
32, 34, 
35, 42 and 
44 and Schedules 4
and 5, shall extend to the
Territory.

PART II
1 
In sections 7, 
8(11) and 15(4),
for references to the Board of Trade there shall be substituted references
to the Commissioner.
2 
In sections 8(1)
 and 8(10), 
10(2) and (3), 
12(6), 21(1) and 
21(6), 22(2) and 
22(3), 31(4), 
43, 48(4) and 
49(2) and paragraph 46 of Schedule
7, for “the United Kingdom”
 there shall be substituted “the Territory”.

3 
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 8 
In subsections (2) and 
(4) for “three farthings”
 there shall be substituted “one penny”
and in subsection (2),
for “farthing” there shall be substituted 
“penny”.For 
subsection (3) there shall be substituted the
following:“
(3) If at any time by an
order made under this section in its operation in the law of the United Kingdom
any different rate of, or minimum amount of, royalty is prescribed either
generally or in relation to any one or more classes of records, 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)(a),
all the words after the first reference to works shall be omitted.
Section
10 For 
subsection (5) there shall be substituted the
following:“
(5) For the purpose 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 under
this section and section 36
of the Registered Designs Act 1949
as extended by this section in the law of the United Kingdom.”.

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 38 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), in the proviso, “,
or of 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 (7C) and (7D),
all the words after “Criminal Justice
Act 1982” shall be omitted.Subsection (10)
shall be omitted.

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 Commissioner”
 and, subject to the modifications to 
subsection (4) hereinafter provided, for subsequent
references to the said Commissioners there shall be substituted references
to the Commissioner.In 
subsection (4), for “the Commissioners”
 where those words first occur there shall be substituted 
“the Commissioner” and for “the Commissioners
consider” there shall be substituted “the Commissioner
considers”.In 
subsection (5), for “the Commissioners”
 shall be substituted “the Commissioner”.
Subsection (6)
shall be omitted.For 
subsection (7) there shall be substituted the
following:“
(7) Where by virtue of
this section the importation into the Territory of any copy of a work to which
the section applies is prohibited, the importation into the Territory of such
a copy shall, for the purposes only of provisions as to the forfeiture of
goods in any law relating to imports be deemed to be a contravention of that
law.”.

Section 31 
Subsections (1) and (2)
shall be omitted.In subsection
(4), for “in a country”
 there shall be substituted “in the United Kingdom or
in any country other than the Territory”.
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 Territory.”.


Section 37 
Subsection (4) shall be omitted.
Section
39 In 
subsection (8), for “
section three of the Crown Proceedings
Act, 1947” there shall be substituted 
“section 5 of the 
Crown Proceedings Ordinance, 1984”.


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 
Subsection (7) shall be omitted.
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.In subsection
(4), “or rules”
shall be omitted.

Section 51 
For subsection (2)
there shall be substituted the following:“
(2) 
(a) Any provision of this Act empowering
the Commissioner to make regulations shall come into operation on the commencement
of the Order in Council extending that provision to the Territory.
(b) All the other provisions of this Act
shall come into operation on 14th September 1984.”.Subsection (3)
shall be omitted.

Seventh Schedule Paragraphs 25, 
26, 40 and 
41 shall be omitted.