Commencement of the Copyright Amendment Act, 1989

Commencement of the Copyright Amendment Act, 1989 (1989)
P. W. Botha, as State President of the Republic of South Africa

This presidential proclamation, number R. 129 of 1989 published on 21 July 1989 in Government Gazette No. 12015, set the date that the Copyright Amendment Act, 1989 came into force.

810985Commencement of the Copyright Amendment Act, 19891989P. W. Botha, as State President of the Republic of South Africa

Copyright Amendment Act, 1989
(Act No. 61 of 1989)

By virtue of the powers vested in me by section 5 of the Copyright Amendment Act, 1989, I fix 1 August 1989 as the date on which the said Act shall come into operation.

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

P. W. Botha,
State President.

By Order of the State President-in-Council:

D. W. Steyn,
Minister of the Cabinet.

This work is in the public domain because it was created and first published in South Africa and it is an official text of a legislative, administrative or legal nature, or an official translation of such a text.

According to the Copyright Act, 1978, § 12 (8) (a), "No copyright shall subsist in official texts of a legislative, administrative or legal nature, or in official translations of such texts."

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