The Copyright (International Conventions) (Amendment) Order 1988

Made: 17th February 1988

Laid before Parliament: 25th February 1988

Coming into force: 17th March 1988

At the Court at Buckingham Palace, the 17th day of February 1988 Present, The Queen’s Most Excellent Majesty in Council

Her Majesty, by virtue of the authority conferred upon Her by sections 31, 32 and 47 of the Copyright Act 1956[^f00001], is pleased, by and with the advice of Her Privy Council, to order, and it is hereby ordered, as follows:—

1

This Order may be cited as the Copyright (International Conventions) (Amendment) Order 1988 and shall come into force on 17th March 1988.

2

The Copyright (International Conventions) Order 1979[^f00002] shall be amended as follows:—

• (a) in Schedule 1 (which names the countries of the Berne Copyright Union) there shall be included a reference to Colombia indicated with an asterisk to denote that Colombia is also party to the Universal Copyright Convention; and

• (b) in Schedule 2 (which names the countries party to the Universal Copyright Convention but not members of the Berne Union) the name of Colombia, and the date indicated in relation to that country, shall be omitted.

3

This Order shall extend to the countries mentioned in the Schedule hereto.

SCHEDULE — COUNTRIES TO WHICH THIS ORDER EXTENDS

• Bermuda

• British Indian Ocean Territory

• British Virgin Islands

• Cayman Islands

• Falkland Islands

• Gibraltar

• Hong Kong

• Isle of Man

• Montserrat

• South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands

• St. Helena

• St. Helena Dependencies

• (Ascension, Tristan da Cunha)

Signed

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

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order further amends the Copyright (International Conventions) Order 1979 to take account of the accession of Colombia to the Berne Copyright Convention.

Article 3 extends the Order to the dependent countries of the Commonwealth to which the 1979 Order now extends.

Footnotes

[^f00001]: 1956 c. 74.

[^f00002]: S.I. 1979/1715, to which there are amendments not relevant to this Order.