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(1)This Act may be cited as the Copyright Act, 1956.
(2)This Act shall come into operation on such day as the Board of Trade may by order appoint; and different days may be appointed for the purposes of different provisions of this Act, and, for the purposes of any provision of this Act whereby enactments are repealed, different days may be appointed for the operation of the repeal in relation to different enactments, including different enactments contained in the same Act.
(3)It is hereby declared that this Act extends to Northern Ireland.
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