# Copyright Act 1956, Paragraph 29


(1) Section thirty-eight shall not apply to a bequest contained in the will, or a codicil to the will, of a testator who died before the commencement of that section.
(2) In the case of an author who died before the commencement of section thirty-eight, the provision set out in paragraph 7 of the Eighth Schedule to this Act (being subsection (2) of section seventeen of the Act of 1911) shall have effect as if it had been re-enacted in this Act.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Eliz2/4-5/74/schedule/SEVENTH/paragraph/29 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/copyright-act-1956/schedule-SEVENTH/paragraph-29
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