{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/copyright-hong-kong-order-1972/note",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/copyright-hong-kong-order-1972/note.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1972/1724",
  "legislation_title": "The Copyright (Hong Kong) Order 1972",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/copyright-hong-kong-order-1972",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "This Order extends the provisions of the Copyright Act 1956 with certain exceptions and modifications to form part of the law of Hong Kong.\nThe Order also extends three Orders in Council made under Part V of that Act. The extension of these Orders will give protection in Hong Kong to works originating in countries party to International Copyright Conventions, to works produced by certain international organisations and to lawfully authorised broadcasts originating in other Commonwealth countries to which the 1956 Act has already been extended. Broadcasts by Hong Kong organisations will also have protection in Hong Kong and in those countries by virtue of this Order.\nThe copyright protection given by the law of Hong Kong will be similar to that given by the law of the United Kingdom.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1972/1724/note",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T22:24:16.016927+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}