Commencement of section 7 of the Copyright Amendment Act, 1984

Commencement of section 7 of the Copyright Amendment Act, 1984 (1985)
P. W. Botha, as State President of the Republic of South Africa

This presidential proclamation, number 108 of 1985 published on 5 July 1985 in Government Gazette No. 9830, set the date that section 7 of the Copyright Amendment Act, 1984, was to come into force. It did not, however, come into effect, being withdrawn on 31 March 1989 by Proclamation No. 43 of 1989.

PROCLAMATION

by the

State President of the Republic of South Africa

No. 108, 1985

Commencement of section 7 of the Copyright Amendment Act, 1984 (Act 52 of 1984)

By virtue of the powers vested in me by section 15 (1) of the Copyright Amendment Act, 1984, I fix 1 April 1989 as the date on which the said section 7 shall come into operation.

Given under my Hand and the Seal of the Republic of South Africa at Cape Town this Sixth day of June, One thousand Nine hundred and Eighty-five.

P. W. Botha,
State President.

By Order of the State President-in-Council:
D. J. de Villiers.

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