Chapter XXXIV: Part II: Administration

_Division 1.--The Registrar and the Copyright Office_

{Sidenote: Registrar}

9. _Registrar._--(1.) There shall be a Registrar of Copyrights.

(2.) The Governor-General may appoint one or more Deputy Registrars of Copyrights who shall, subject to the control of the Registrar of Copyrights, have all the powers conferred by this Act on the Registrar.

{Sidenote: Copyright Office}

10. _Copyright Office._--For the purposes of this Act an office shall be established which shall be called the Copyright Office.

{Sidenote: Seal}

11. _Seal of Copyright Office_.--There shall be a seal of the Copyright Office, and impressions thereof shall be judicially noticed.

_Division 2.--The Transfer of the Administration of the State Copyright Acts_

{Sidenote: Transfer of administration}

12. _Transfer of administration._--The Governor-General may, by proclamation, declare that, from and after a date specified in the proclamation, the administration of the State Copyright Acts of any State so far as they relate to the registration of the copyright in any book, the performing right in any musical or dramatic work, the lecturing right in any lecture, and the copyright in any artistic or fine art work, or to the registration of any assignment or grant of, or licence in relation to, any such right, shall be transferred to the Commonwealth and thereupon, so far as is necessary for the purposes of this section--

{Sidenote: Effect of transfer}

(_a_) _Effect of transfer of administration. Cf. Patents Act, 1903,
ss. 18 and 19._--The State Copyright Acts of the State shall cease
to be administered by the State, and shall thereafter be
administered by the Commonwealth so far as is necessary for the
purpose of completing then pending proceedings and of giving effect
to then existing rights, and the Registrar shall collect for the
State all fees which become payable thereunder; and

(_b_) all powers and functions under any State Copyright Act vested
in the Governor of the State or in the Governor with the advice of
the Executive Council of the State or in any Minister officer or
authority of the State shall vest in the Governor-General or in the
Governor-General in Council or in the Minister officer or authority
exercising similar powers under the Commonwealth as the case
requires or as is prescribed; and

(_c_) all records registers deeds and documents of the Copyright
office of the State vested in or subject to the control of the
State shall, by force of this Act, be vested in and made subject to
the control of the Commonwealth.