Singapore legislation
Regulation 31
Regulation 31
Section 198 — prescribed record of permitted use
Subregulation 1
This regulation prescribes the record required to be made under section 198(2)(e).
Subregulation 2
In all cases, the record must —
be in writing;
state the date on which the record is made; and
be signed by the person making the record.
Subregulation 3
In the case of an authorial work (being an article in a periodical publication), the record must state all the following particulars:
if the periodical publication states its ISSN — the ISSN;
if sub‑paragraph (a) does not apply — the name of the periodical publication;
the title (if any) of the article;
if the article has no title, a description of the article that will enable the article to be identified;
the name of the author of the article (if the article has an identified author);
the volume, or the volume and number (as the case may be), of the periodical publication;
the page numbers (if any) of the pages in that volume, or in that number of that volume, that have been copied or communicated;
to the extent that the pages copied or communicated do not bear a page number — a description of those pages that will enable them to be identified;
the date on which the copy or communication was made;
the number of copies made or the number of persons to whom the communication was made, as the case may be.
Subregulation 4
In the case of an authorial work (not being an article in a periodical publication), the record must state all the following particulars:
if the edition of the work that was copied or communicated states its ISBN — the ISBN;
if sub‑paragraph (a) does not apply —
the title (if any) of the work;
if the work has no title, a description of the work that will enable the work to be identified;
the name of the publisher of the edition of the work that was copied or communicated; and
the name of the author of the work (if the work has an identified author);
the page numbers (if any) of the pages in the edition of the work that were copied or communicated;
to the extent that the pages copied or communicated do not bear a page number — a description of those pages that will enable them to be identified;
if the work is contained in a published edition in an electronic form — the total number of bytes in the edition that have been copied or communicated;
the date on which the copy or communication was made;
the number of copies made or the number of persons to whom the communication was made, as the case may be.
Subregulation 5
In the case of a recording of a protected performance, the record must state all the following particulars:
the title (if any) of the performance;
if the performance has no title, a description of the performance that will enable the performance to be identified;
the name of the performer (unless the name is not generally known or known to the person making the record, and could not reasonably be ascertained by that person);
the duration of the entire recording;
a description of the part of the recording that is copied or communicated (for example, the first 2 minutes of the recording), which description must enable that part to be identified;
the date on which the copy or communication was made;
the number of copies made or the number of persons to whom the communication was made, as the case may be.
Subregulation 6
For the purposes of paragraphs (3)(j), (4)(g) and (5)(g), where —
a copy is made in electronic form on, or a communication is made on, a network operated or controlled by an educational institution;
the copy or communication is made to enable persons undertaking a course of education provided by that or another educational institution to access the authorial work or recording of the protected performance; and
the number of copies made, or the number of persons to whom the communication was made, cannot reasonably be ascertained,the number of copies made, or the number of persons to whom the communication is made, is taken to be equal to the number of students enrolled in that course of education.
Subregulation 7
For the purposes of this regulation and section 198(2)(e), where a record of a communication is made —
the record is deemed to also be a record of the making of a temporary copy as part of the technical process of making or receiving the communication; and
a separate record is not required for the making of the temporary copy.