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- (b) is imposing unreasonable terms or conditions on the granting of such licences,
the competent authority may direct that, as respects the doing of any act relating to a work with which the licensing body is concerned, a licence shall be deemed to have been granted by the licensing body at the time the act is done, provided the appropriate fees fixed by such competent authority are paid or tendered before the expiration of such period or periods as the competent authority may determine and such other reasonable terms and conditions as may be prescribed by the competent authority are fulfilled.
(2) In this section—
"competent authority" means the authority consisting of not more than five persons appointed by the Minister from amongst persons having experience in and knowledge of matters of copyright, at least three of which are not members of the public service, for the purpose of exercising jurisdiction under the provisions of this Law whenever any mat requires to be determined by such authority;
"licensing body" means a society, firm or other organization which has as its main object, or one of its main objects, the negotiation or granting of licences in respect of copyright works, and includes an individual carrying on the same activity.
(3) No person may be appointed under the provisions of this section, nor may any person so appointed act, as a competent authority, if he, his partner, his employer or any body (whether statutory or not) of which he is a member has any pecuniary interest in any matter which requires to be determined by such authority.
(4) The Minister may make regulations, published in the official Gazette of the Republic, governing the proceedings before the competent authority and, without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing may make Regulations—
- (a) prescribing the manner in which any matter may be referred to the competent authority;
- (b) prescribing the procedure to be adopted by the competent authority in dealing with any matter referred to it under this Law and the records to be kept by the competent authority;
- (c) prescribing the manner in which the competent authority shall be convened and the place where the competent authority shall hold its sittings;
- (d) prescribing the scale of fees and charges; and
- (e) relating generally to the better carrying out of the functions entrusted to the competent authority by this Law.
Regulations. 16. The Council of Ministers may make Regulations, published in the official Gazette of the Republic, for the better carrying out of the provisions of this Law, and for prescribing anything which is required or may be prescribed under this Law.
