Copyright. {Ch. 31. No. 16.

(2) If any person knowingly makes or has in his
possession any plate for the purpose of making infringing
copies of any work in which copyright subsists, or know-
ingly and for his private profit causes any such work to be
performed in public without the consent of the owner of the
copyright, he shall be lable, on summary conviction, to a
fine of two hundred and forty dollars, or in a case of a
subsequent offence, cither to such fine or to imprisonment
for two months.

(3) The court before which any such proceedings are
taken may, whether the alleged offender is convicted or not,
order that all copies of the work or all plates in the possession
of the alleged offender which appear to it to be infringing
copies, or plates for the purpose of making infringing
copies, be destroyed or delivered up to the owner of the
copyright, or otherwise dealt with as the court may think
fit.

PART III.
IMPORTATION OF COPIES.

11. lor the purpose of the application of section 14 of the
Copyright Act, 1911, to the importation into the Colony of
works made out of the Colony :—

(a) The Comptroller of Customs and Excise shall
perform the dutics and may exercise the powers
thereby imposed on or given to the Commissioners of
Customs and Excise of the United Kingdom;

(b) Regulations made by the Comptroller of Customs
and J¢xcise under that section shall require the approval
of the Governor in Council, and shall be published in
the Royal Gazette;

(c) Regulations made under that section may provide
that notices given to the Commissioners of Customs and
Excise of the United Kingdom, if communicated by
them to the Comptroller of Customs and Excise, shall
be deemed to have been given by the owner of the
copyright to the Comptroller of Customs and Excise;

(d) That section shall have effect as if it formed part
of the Customs Ordinance.

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Operation
of section 14
of the
Copyright
Act, 1911,
in the
Colony.

1 & 2 Geo. V
c. 46.