The Copyright (Virgin Islands) (Amendment) Order 1985

Made: 18th December 1985

Laid before Parliament: 8th January 1986

Coming into Operation: 1st February 1986

At the Court at Buckingham Palace, the 18th day of December 1985

Present,

The Queen's Most Excellent Majesty in Council

Her Majesty, by and with the advice of Her Privy Council, and by virtue of the authority conferred upon Her by sections 31 and 47 of the Copyright Act 1956 and of all other powers enabling Her in that behalf, is pleased to direct, and it is hereby directed, as follows:—

1

This Order may be cited as the Copyright (Virgin Islands) (Amendment) Order 1985 and shall come into operation on 1st February 1986.

2

Part I of the First Schedule to the Copyright (Virgin Islands) Order 1962[^f00001] (hereinafter referred to as “the principal Order”) is amended so that:—

• (a) after the words “and the Films Act 1960(b),” and before the words “except sections 23 to 30,” are added the words “the Copyright Act 1956 (Amendment) Act 1982” “and the Copyright (Amendment) Act 1983,”; and

• (b) after the word “except” and before the words “sections 23 to 30,” are added the words “section 21B,”.

3

The table in Part II of the First Schedule of the principal Order is amended so as to further modify section 21 and to insert a new provision, section 21A, as follows:

Signed

G. I. de Deney — Clerk of the Privy Council

Explanatory note

EXPLANATORY NOTE

This Order amends the Copyright (Virgin Islands) Order 1962 so as to extend section 21 of the Copyright Act 1956 as amended by the Copyright Act 1956 (Amendment) Act 1982 and the Copyright (Amendment) Act 1983 and section 21A of the Copyright Act 1956 as inserted by the Copyright (Amendment) Act 1983, with certain exceptions and modifications set out in Articles 2 and 3 of this Order, to form part of the law of the British Virgin Islands.

Footnotes

[^f00001]: to which there are amendments not relevant to the Order.