Article 1

This Order may be cited as the Copyright (Singapore) Order 1987 and shall come into force on 18th June 1987.

In this Order–

• “the Act” means the Copyright Act 1956; and

• “material time” means–

  1. (i)

     in relation to an unpublished work or subject-matter, the time at which such work or subject-matter was made or, if the making thereof extended over a period, a substantial part of that period; and

  2. (ii)

     in relation to a published work or subject-matter, the time of first publication.