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Copyright Amendment Act 1986

Public Act		1986 No 81
Date of assent		6 November 1986

	Title
1	Short Title
2	Rate of royalty increased
3	Delivery of copies of books
	Administrative information

An Act to amend the Copyright Act 1962

BE IT ENACTED by the General Assembly of New Zealand in Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:

1 Short Title

This Act may be cited as the Copyright Amendment Act 1986, and shall be read together with and deemed part of the Copyright Act 1962 (hereinafter referred to as the principal Act).

2 Rate of royalty increased

(1)

Section 22(2) of the principal Act (as amended by section 14(1) of the Decimal Currency Amendment Act 1965) is hereby amended by omitting the expression “5 percent”, and substituting the expression “5.6 percent”.

(2)

Notwithstanding anything in subsection (1) of this section, in respect of the period beginning on the date of the commencement of this section and ending with the close of the 31st day of December 1987, the reference in section 22(2) of the principal Act to 5 percent shall be read as if it were a reference to 5.3 percent.

3 Delivery of copies of books

(1)

Section 64 of the principal Act is hereby amended by repealing subsection (1) (as amended by section 2(a) of the Copyright Amendment Act 1971), and substituting the following subsection:

“(1)

The publisher of every book which—

“(a)

Is printed in New Zealand; or

“(b)

Is commissioned to be printed outside New Zealand by a publisher resident in New Zealand,—

and in which copyright subsists by virtue of this Act, shall within a period of 30 days from the date of publication deliver at that person’s own expense to the National Librarian 4 copies of the book, or such lesser number of copies as the National Librarian may specify. The National Librarian shall give a written receipt for them.”

(2)

Section 2(a) of the Copyright Amendment Act 1971 is hereby consequentially repealed.

This Act is administered in the Department of Justice.

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