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4 & 5 ELIZ. 2
Copyright Act, 1956
Ch. 74
Part VI
cont.

the copyright in the design shall, notwithstanding anything in this section, be deemed to have expired at the same time as the copyright in the artistic work, and shall not be renewable after that time.”

(3) In section eleven of the said Act of 1949 (which relates to cancellation of the registration of designs), the following subsection shall be inserted after subsection (2):—

"(2A) At any time after a design has been registered, any person interested may apply to the registrar for the cancellation of the registration of the design on the grounds—
(a) that the design, at the time when it was registered, was a corresponding design in relation to an artistic work in which copyright subsisted under the Copyright Act, 1956;

(b) that, by reason of a previous use of that artistic work, the design would not have been registrable under this Act but for subsection (4) of section# six of this Act; and

(c) that the copyright in that work under the Copyright Act, 1956, has expired;

and the registrar may make such order on the application as he thinks fit.”

(4) In subsection (3) of the said section eleven, for the words "the last foregoing subsection” there shall be substituted the words “either of the two last foregoing subsections ”.

(5) In subsection (1) of section forty-four of the said Act of 1949 (which relates to the interpretation of that Act)—

(a) after the definition of “ article ” there shall be inserted the words “'artistic work' has the same meaning as in the Copyright Act, 1956”; and

(b) after the definition of “copyright” there shall be inserted the words “'corresponding design' has the same meaning as in section ten of the Copyright Act, 1956”.

Amendment
and Dramatic
and Musical
Performers'
Protection
Act, 1925
45. In the Dramatic and Musical Performers' Protection Act, Amendment 1925,—

(a) after section one there shall be inserted the two sections set out in Part I of the Sixth Schedule to this Act; and

(b) after section three there shall be inserted the two sections set out in Part II of that Schedule;

and the provisions of that Act specified in Part III of that Schedule shall have effect subject to the amendments set out in relation thereto in the second column of the said Part III (being

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