shall be deemed to have been given, made or taken under the corresponding provision of this Order, and any expulsion order made under The Aliens Act, 1905,1 "'* and in force at the time of the repeal of that Act, shall have effect as though it were a deportation order made under this Order. 2. This Order shall come into operation forthwith. ALMERIC FITZROY.

BRITISH ORDER IN COUNCIL further postponing the coming into operation of the provisions of The Merchant Shipping (Convention) Act, 1914."-London, December 3, 1920.f

At the Court at Buckingham Palace, the 3rd day of December, 1920.

PRESENT: THE KING'S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS on the 20th day of January, 1914, an International Convention for the Safety of Life at Sea, and for purposes incidental thereto, was duly entered into by His Majesty and the other signatory Powers more especially referred to and set out in the said Convention;

And whereas a Statute 4 & 5 Geo. V, c. 50, intituled 'An Act to make such amendments of the law relating to merchant shipping as are necessary or expedient to give effect to an International Convention for the Safety of Life at Sea" (being the Convention above referred to) was passed on the 10th day of August, 1914, the short title of which is "The Merchant Shipping (Convention) Act, 1914 ";S

And whereas by Section 29, Sub-Section 5, of the said Act it was provided as follows:

"This Act shall come into operation on the 1st day of July, 1915:

Provided that His Majesty may, by Order in Council, from time to time postpone the coming into operation of this Act for such period, not exceeding on any occasion of postponement one year, as may be specified in the Order ";

And whereas by divers Orders in Council the coming into operation of the said Act has been from time to time postponed, and now stands postponed, by virtue of an Order in Council of the 11th day of June, 1920, until the 1st day of January, 1921;

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And whereas His Majesty deems it expedient that the provisions of the said Act should be further postponed:

Now, therefore, His Majesty, by and with the advice of his Privy Council, in pursuance of the powers vested in him by the above-recited provision, and of all other powers him thereunto enabling, doth order, and it is hereby ordered, that the provisions of "The Merchant Shipping (Convention) Act, 1914," shall be postponed from coming into operation until the 1st day of July, 1921.

ALMERIC FITZROY.

BRITISH ORDER IN COUNCIL applying the provisions of Part II of The Fugitive Offenders Act, 1881," to the Colony of Kenya and other Territories in Africa.London, December 3, 1920.*

At the Court at Buckingham Palace, the 3rd day of
December, 1920.

PRESENT: THE KING'S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by treaty, grant, usage, sufferance or other lawful means His Majesty has power and jurisdiction in the territories of or adjacent to East Africa named in the first column of the Schedule to this Order;

And whereas by certain Orders in Council mentioned in the second column of the said Schedule and respectively set opposite to the names of the said territories specified as aforesaid in the first column thereof "The Fugitive Offenders Act, 1881," has been applied to the said territories respectively as if each of them were a British Possession;

And whereas by reason of the contiguity of the Colony of Kenya and of the said territories and the frequent intercommunication between them it seems expedient to His Majesty and conducive to the better administration of justice. therein that Part II of The Fugitive Offenders Act, 1881," should apply to the said Colony and territories as hereinafter provided:

Now, therefore, His Majesty, by virtue of the powers in this behalf by The Fugitive Offenders Act, 1881," The Foreign Jurisdiction Act, 1890," or otherwise in His Majesty vested, is pleased, by and with the advice of his Privy Council, to order, and it is hereby ordered, as follows:

"London Gazette," December 10, 1920. + Vol. LXXII, page 622.

1. This Order may be cited as Offenders Order in Council, 1920."

The East Africa Fugitive

2.—(1.) Part II of "The Fugitive Offenders Act, 1881," shall apply to the Colony of Kenya and the territories named in the first column of the Schedule to this Order.

(2.) The foregoing provision shall be deemed to be in addition to and not in substitution for any provision of the like nature made in respect of the said Colony by any other Order in Council, or in respect of the territories named in the first column of the Schedule to this Order by the Orders in Council mentioned in the second column thereof and respectively set opposite to the names of the said territories specified as aforesaid in the first column thereof.

3. The Governor of the said Colony and the High Commissioner for Zanzibar and the Governor of each of the said other territories shall cause this Order to be proclaimed therein, and this Order shall come into operation on a day to be fixed by such Proclamation.

4. His Majesty may from time to time revoke, alter, add to, or amend this Order.

And the Right Honourable Viscount Milner, one of His Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State, is to give the necessary directions herein accordingly.

ALMERIC FITZROY.

BRITISH ORDER IN COUNCIL under "The Copyright Act, 1911,” amending "The Order in Council of June 24, 1912," regulating Copyright Relations with the Foreign Countries of the Berlin Copyright Union as regards Austria.-London, December 21, 1920.*

At the Court at Buckingham Palace, the 21st day of
December, 1920.

PRESENT: THE KING'S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY.

Lord President.

Lord Steward.

Lord Colebrooke.

Sir L. Worthington-Evans, Bt. Sir John Tilley.

WHEREAS on the 24th day of April, 1893, a Convention with respect to the protection to be given by way of copyright to the authors of literary and artistic works was coneluded between Her late Majesty Queen Victoria and His late Majesty the Emperor of Austria, King of Bohemia and Apostolic King of Hungary, and the ratifications of the said Convention were exchanged on the 14th day of April, 1894, between Her late Majesty Queen Victoria and His late Majesty the Emperor;

And whereas by Orders in Council dated the 30th day of April, 1894, the 2nd day of February, 1895, and the 11th day of May, 1895, and made under the authority of "The International Copyright Acts, 1844 to 1886," effect was given to the said Convention throughout His Majesty's Dominions except in the Dominion of Canada, the Cape, New South Wales and Tasmania;

And whereas by "The Copyright Act, 1911," the said "International Copyright Acts, 1844 to 1886," were repealed as from the date of the commencement of the said "Copyright Act, 1911," in the parts of His Majesty's Dominions to which the said Act extends;

And whereas by the Order in Council dated the 24th day of June, 1912, and made under the authority of "The Copyright Act, 1911," the Orders in Council dated the 30th day of April, 1894, the 2nd day of February, 1895, and the 11th day of May, 1895, were revoked as from the date of the commencement of the said "Copyright Act, 1911," so far as regards the parts of His Majesty's Dominions to which the said Order applied;

And whereas by reason of the late war between the United "London Gazette," December 31, 1920. + Vol. LXXXV, page 2. Vol. CIV, page 13. § Vol. CV, page 151.

Kingdom and Austria the said Convention and the Order in Council dated the 24th day of June, 1912, ceased to have effect;

And whereas by "The Trading with the Enemy (Copyright) Act, 1916," it was provided that copyright in all works first published or made in an enemy country during the present war therein referred to, the copyright wherein would had a state of war not existed have vested in any person as the owner thereof by virtue of the application to an enemy country of any Order in Council made under "The Copyright Act, 1911," should be deemed to vest or to have vested in the Public Trustee in his capacity as Custodian under "The Trading with the Enemy Amendment Act, 1914 ";†

And whereas by Article 258 of the Treaty of Peace with Austria it is provided that rights of literary and artistic property, as such property is defined in the International Convention referred to therein shall be re-established or restored in the territories of the High Contracting Parties in favour as the case may be of the persons who were respectively entitled to the benefit of them at the moment when the state of war commenced or their legal representatives, and that rights which, except for the war, would have been acquired during the war in consequence of the publication of a literary or artistic work shall be recognised and established in favour of those persons who would have been entitled thereto, subject nevertheless to the right (thereby reserved) to impose limitations, conditions or restrictions as therein mentioned on rights of literary or artistic property acquired before, during or after the war as therein referred to by Austrian nationals (as defined in the said Treaty of Peace);

And whereas by The Treaty of Peace (Austria) Order, 1920," and the Order of the Board of Trade dated the 9th day of November, 1920, effect has been given to the provisions of the Treaty of Peace mentioned in the preceding paragraph of this Order;

And whereas His Majesty, by virtue of the authority conferred on him by The Copyright Act, 1911." and having regard to the provisions of the Berlin Copyright Convention, was pleased to make an Order in Council, dated the 24th day of June, 1912 ¶ (hereinafter called the Principal Order), extending the protection of the said Act to certain classes of works to which protection is guaranteed by the said Convention;

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