PART IIITRANSITIONAL PROVISIONS AND SAVINGS

General provisions

Introductory25.

(1)

In this Part—

“commencement” means the commencement of these Regulations; and

“existing”, in relation to a work or performance, means made or given before commencement.

(2)

For the purposes of this Part a work of which the making extended over a period shall be taken to have been made when its making was completed.

(3)

In this Part a “new right” means a right arising by virtue of these Regulations, in relation to a copyright work or a qualifying performance, to authorise or prohibit an act.

The expression does not include—

(a)

a right corresponding to a right which existed immediately before commencement, or

(b)

a right to remuneration arising by virtue of these Regulations.

(4)

Expressions used in this Part have the same meaning in relation to copyright as they have in Part I of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 198816, and in relation to performances as in Part II of that Act.