Singapore legislation

Clause 9

of Copyright (Amendment) Bill

Clause 9

Amendment of section 162

Section 162 of the Copyright Act is amended by deleting subsection (4) and substituting the following subsection:“(4) Subject to subsection (5), where a licence scheme is referred to a Tribunal under this section, the Tribunal shall consider the matter in dispute and, after giving to the parties to the reference an opportunity of presenting their cases, shall make such order in relation to the scheme as previously confirmed, varied or substituted, insofar as it relates to cases included in the class of cases to which the reference relates, whether by way of confirming, varying or further varying the scheme, or substituting the scheme with such other scheme, as the Tribunal considers reasonable in the circumstances.”.