Singapore legislation

Clause 229

Bequests

(1)

Section 186 shall not apply in relation to a bequest contained in the will of a testator who died before the commencement of this Act.

(2)

Where —

(a)

an author has died before the commencement of this Act;

(b)

a person has acquired, under the will of the author, the ownership of a manuscript of a work by the author; and

(c)

the work —

(i)

has not been published;

(ii)

in the case of a dramatic or musical work — has not been performed in public; and

(iii)

in the case of a lecture — has not been delivered in public,the ownership by that person of the manuscript shall be evidence that that person is the owner of the copyright in the work.

(3)

In subsection (1), expressions that are defined by section 193 shall have the meanings respectively given to those expressions by that section and shall not have the meanings, if any, respectively given to those expressions by Part II.