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Enclosure. At the Court at Buckingham Palace, the 13th day of June, 1913. Present: The King's Most Excellent Majesty, Lord President, Lord Chamberlain, Lord Welby, Lord Ashby St. Ledgers, Lord Islington, Sir Samuel W. Griffith, Mr. J. Herbert Lewis, Sir Alfred M. Mond, Bart., Lord Justice Swinfen Eady. Whereas His Majesty, by virtue of the authority conferred on him by the Copyright Act, 1911, and having regard to the provisions of the Berlin Copyright Convention, was pleased to make an Order in Council, dated the 24th day of June, 1912 (hereinafter called "the principal Order"), extending the protection of the said Act to certain classes of works to which protection is guaranteed by the said Convention : And whereas by Orders in Council dated the 17th day of March, 1913, and the 11th day of April, 1913, the provisions of the principal Order were, extended, subject to certain modifications, to Denmark' the Netherlands, the Netherlands East Indies, and the Colony of Curacao : And whereas the Kingdom of the Netherlands has acceded on behalf of the Colony of Surinam to the said Berlin Copyright Convention, subject to the reservations mentioned in the schedule to this Order : Now, therefore, His Majesty, by and with the advice of his Privy Council, and by virtue of the authority conferred upon him by the Copyright Act, 1911, is pleased to order, and it is hereby ordered, as follows :— The principal Order shall extend to the Colony of Surinam as if it were amongst the foreign countries of the Copyright Union therein named, subject to the following modiications :— (a.) The provisions of Article 2, proviso (iii) (6), and of Article 2, proviso (iii) (c), of the principal Order shall apply as if the Colony of Surinam were included amongst the foreign countries named in those provisions. (6.) In the application to works of which the country of origin is the Colony of Surinam of sections 1 (2) (d) and 19 of the Copyright Act, 1911, the date of this Order shall be substituted for the commencement of the Act in' sections 19 (7) and 19 (8) wherever that expression occurs, and the Ist April, 1913, for the passing of the Act. (c.) In the application to such works of the provisions of section 24 of the Copyright Act, 1911, the date of this Order shall be substituted for the commencement of the Act wherever that expression occurs in subsection (1) (a), and for the 26th July, 1910, in subsection (1) (6). (d.) In the application to such works of the provisions of Article 3 of the principal Order the date of this Order shall be substituted for the commencement of the principal Order. And the Lords Commissioners of His Majesty's Treasury are to give the necessary orders accordingly. Almeric Fitzroy.

Schedule. Reservations made to the Berlin Convention.

No. 39. New Zealand, No. 243. My Lord,— Downing Street, 3rd July, 1912. With reference to the letter from the General Post Office to the PostmasterGeneral of New Zealand of the 21st February, I have the honour to transmit to Your Excellency, for the information of your Ministers, the accompanying copies of a Bill which has been introduced into the Imperial Parliament " to enable newspapers published in British possessions or protectorates to be registered and be treated as registered newspapers under the Post Office Act, 1908." I have, &c, L. HARCOURT. Governor His Excellency the Right Hon. the Earl of Liverpool, K.C.M.G., M.V.0., &c.

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Country. Subject. Substituted Provisions of Berne Convention and Additional Act of Paris. * etherlands Translating-right Newspaper and magazine articles Performing-right as regards translations Article 5 of the Berne Convention as amendec by the Additional Act. Article 7 of the Berne Convention as amendec by the Additional Act. Article 9, paragraph (2), of the Berne Convention.