A BILL
to amend the Copyright Ordinance, 1962.
WHEREAS it is expedient to amend the Copyright Ordinance, 1962 (XXXIV of 1962), for the purposes hereinafter appearing;
It is hereby enacted as follows:-
1. Short title and commencement:- (1) This Act may called the Copyright (Amendment) Act, 1999.
2. It shall come into force on 1st day of January, 2000.
3. In the said Ordinance, clause (p) of section 2 shall be substituted, namely:-
"(p) "literary work" includes work on humanity, religion, social and physical sciences, tables, compilations of data or other material in any form and computer programmes, that is to say, programmes recorded on any disc, tape, perforated media or other information storage device, which, if fed into or located in a computer or computer based equipment is capable of reproducing any information;"
