The Copyright and Rights in Performances (Notice of Seizure) Order 1989

Made13th June 1989

Laid before Parliament26th June 1989

Coming into force1st August 1989

The Secretary of State, in exercise of the powers conferred upon him by section 100(4) and (5) and section 196(4) and (5) of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 19881 (“the Act”), hereby makes the following Order:–

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This Order may be cited as the Copyright and Rights in Performances (Notice of Seizure) Order 1989 and shall come into force on 1st August 1989.

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The form set out in the Schedule to this Order is hereby prescribed for the notice required under section 100(4) and section 196(4), respectively, of the Act.

Eric ForthParliamentary Under Secretary of State for Industry and Consumer Affairs,Department of Trade and Industry13th June 1989

SCHEDULETHE COPYRIGHT AND RIGHTS IN PERFORMANCES (NOTICE OF SEIZURE) ORDER 1989

Article 2

NOTICE OF SEIZURE

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(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order prescribes the form of the notice required for the purposes of section 100(4) and section 196(4) of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. Those sections require that when the copyright owner or the person having performer’s rights or recording rights exercises his right to seize and detain infringing copies of works or illicit recordings of a performance he shall leave at the time and place of seizure a notice in the prescribed form. Before anything is seized under those sections notice of the time and place of the proposed seizure must be given to a local police station.