Singapore legislation

Regulation 6

of Copyright Regulations 2021

Regulation 6

What is a reciprocating country and related concepts

Subregulation 1

Unless expressly provided otherwise in this Part, a country is a reciprocating country for the purposes of this Part and section 3(1)(a) if it is —

(a)

a party to the Berne Convention; or

(b)

a member of the World Trade Organisation.

Subregulation 2

For the purposes of this Part, an act is done in a reciprocating country if it is done in the territory of the reciprocating country.

Subregulation 3

For the purposes of this Part —

(a)

the territory of the United States of America includes the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, Guam and the Virgin Islands; and

(b)

the territory of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland includes the Channel Islands, Anguilla, the Pitcairn Islands, British Indian Ocean Territory, British Virgin Islands, Cayman Islands, Falkland Islands, Falkland Islands Dependencies, Gibraltar, Isle of Man, Montserrat, St. Helena, St. Helena Dependencies (Ascension, Tristan da Cunha), Bermuda and the Turks and Caicos Islands.