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PART 3SAVINGS AND TRANSITIONAL PROVISIONS

General provisions

Introductory

30.—(1) In this Part—

“commencement” means the date upon which these regulations come into force;

“extended copyright” means any copyright in sound recordings which subsists by virtue of section 13A of the 1988 Act (as amended by regulation 29) after the date on which it would have expired under the 1988 provisions;

“prospective owner” includes a person who is prospectively entitled to extended copyright in a sound recording by virtue of such an agreement as is mentioned in regulation 37(1);

“the 1988 Act” means the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988; and

“the 1988 provisions” means the provisions of the 1988 Act as they stood immediately before commencement (including the provisions of Schedule 1 to that Act continuing the effect of earlier enactments).

(2) Expressions used in this Part which are defined for the purposes of Part 1 or 2 of the 1988 Act have the same meaning as in that Part.