Singapore legislation
Clause 59
Clause 59
Effect of acts done before appointed day
(1)
Sections 53, 54, 55, 56, 57 and 58 do not apply for the purposes of deciding —
(a)
whether a work has been published by virtue of an act done before the appointed day;
(b)
whether a publication of a work before the appointed day is the first publication of the work; or
(c)
whether a work is, by virtue of an act done before the appointed day, published in the lifetime of a person.
(2)
Despite the repeal of the 1987 Act, section 24 of that Act applies instead for those purposes (as modified, where applicable, by section 209 of that Act).
(3)
In this section, “work” means an authorial work, an edition of an authorial work, a sound recording or a film.