Industrial and Commercial Property (Protection) (Amendment) Act, 1957

Amendment of section 166 of the Principal Act.

10.—Section 166 of the Principal Act (which relates to works of joint authors) is hereby amended by the substitution for subsection (1) of the following subsection:

“(1) In the case of a work of joint authorship, copyright shall subsist during the life of the author who dies last and for a term of fifty years after his death, and references in this Act to the period after the expiration of any specified number of years from the death of the author shall be construed as references to the period after the expiration of the like number of years from the death of the author who dies last.”