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54 United Nations - 1950 Treaty Series

6. In this Order, " the commencement of this Order " means the date on which this Order is published in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette. GIVEN under my Hand and the Seal of the Commonwealth, this ninth day of September, in the year of our Lord One Thousand nine hundred and forty-seven and in the eleventh year of His Majesty's reign. [L. S.]

By His Excellency's Command,

(Signed) H. V. EVATT Attorney-General

II The Secretary of State to the Australian Ambassador DEPARTMENT

OF STATE WASHINGTON Dec. 29, 1949 Excellency:

I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your note of today's date in which you refer to paragraph (b), section 9 of Title 17 of the United States Code, codified and enacted into positive law by the Act of Congress approved July 30, 1947, which authorizes the President to extend by proclamation the time for compliance with the conditions and formalities prescribed by the copyright laws of the United States of America with respect to works first produced or published outside the United States of America and subject to copyright under the laws of the United States of America when the authors, copyright owners, or proprietors of such works are or may have been temporarily unable to comply with those conditions and formalities because of the disruption or suspension of the facilities essential to such compliance.

You state that by reason of conditions arising out of World War II authors, copyright owners, and proprietors who are citizens of Australia have lacked during several years of the time since the outbreak of war between Australia and Germany on September 3, 1939, the facilities essential to compliance with and to the fulfillment of the conditions and formalities established by the laws of the United States of America relating to copyright. No. 909