Section 51
Section 51
(1)
Where material is open to public inspection under a statutory requirement, or is on a statutory register, copyright in the material as a literary work is not infringed by the copying of so much of the material as contains factual information of any description, by or with the authority of the appropriate person, for a purpose which does not involve the issuing of copies to the public.
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(2)
Where material is open to public inspection under a statutory requirement, copyright is not infringed by the copying or issuing to the public of copies of the material, by or with the authority of the appropriate person, for the purpose of enabling the material to be inspected at a more convenient time or place or otherwise facilitating the exercise of any right for the purpose of which the requirement was imposed.
(3)
Where material which is open to public inspection under a statutory requirement, or which is on a statutory register, contains information about matters of general scientific, technical, commercial or economic interest, copyright is not infringed by the copying or issuing to the public of copies of the material, by or with the authority of the appropriate person, for the purpose of disseminating that information.
(4)
The Attorney General may by order provide that subsections (1), (2) and (3)
shall, in such cases as may be prescribed, apply only to copies marked in such manner as may be so prescribed.
(5)
The Attorney General may by order provide that subsections (1), (2) and (3)
shall, to such extent and with such modifications as may be prescribed, apply –
(a)
to material made open to public inspection by –
(i)
a prescribed international organisation; or
(ii)
a prescribed person who has functions in Brunei
Darussalam under an international agreement to which
Brunei Darussalam is a party; or
(b)
to a register maintained by a prescribed international organisation, as they apply in relation to material open to public inspection under a statutory requirement or to a statutory register.
(6)
In this section –
“appropriate person” means the person required to make the material open to public inspection or, as the case may be, the person maintaining the statutory register;
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“statutory register” means a register maintained under a statutory requirement;
“statutory requirement” means a requirement imposed by or under any written law.
Material communicated to Government in course of public business.