Statutory Instruments

1993 No. 943

RIGHTS IN PERFORMANCES

The Performances (Reciprocal Protection) (Convention Countries) Order 1993

Made

31st March 1993

Laid before Parliament

13th April 1993

Coming into force

4th May 1993

At the Court at Buckingham Palace, the 31st day of March 1993

Present,

The Queen’s Most Excellent Majesty in Council

Her Majesty, by virtue of the authority conferred upon Her by section 208(1)(a) of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988(1), is pleased, by and with the advice of Her Privy Council, to order, and it is hereby ordered, as follows:

1.  This Order may be cited as the Performances (Reciprocal Protection) (Convention Countries) Order 1993 and shall come into force on 4th May 1993.

2.  The following countries are hereby designated as enjoying reciprocal protection under Part II of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 (rights in performances)–

• Argentina

• Australia

• Austria

• Barbados

• Brazil

• Burkina Faso

• Chile

• Colombia

• Congo

• Costa Rica

• Czechoslovakia

• Denmark (including Greenland and the Faeroe Islands)

• Dominican Republic

• Ecuador

• El Salvador

• Fiji

• Finland

• France (including all Overseas Departments and Territories)

• Germany

• Greece

• Guatemala

• Honduras

• Ireland, Republic of

• Italy

• Japan

• Lesotho

• Luxembourg

• Mexico

• Monaco

• Niger

• Norway

• Panama

• Paraguay

• Peru

• Philippines

• Spain

• Sweden

• Uruguay.

3.  The Performances (Reciprocal Protection) (Convention Countries) (No. 2) Order 1989(2) is hereby revoked.

N. H. Nicholls

Clerk of the Privy Council

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Order)

The Performances (Reciprocal Protection) (Convention Countries) (No. 2) Order 1989 designated certain countries, all parties to the International Convention for the Protection of Performers, Producers of Phonograms and Broadcasting Organisations (the Rome Convention) (Cmnd. 2425), as enjoying reciprocal protection under the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 relating to rights in performances. Since that Order was made, Argentina, Australia, Greece, Honduras, Japan, Lesotho and Spain also have become parties to the Rome Convention.

This Order revokes and replaces that Order–

(a) to include those countries in the list of designated countries; and

(b) to modify the entries relating to–

(i) the Federal Republic of Germany following the unification thereof with the German Democratic Republic; and

(ii) Denmark so as to include Greenland as part of that country.

(1)

1988 c. 48.

(2)

S.I. 1989/1296.