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Copyright Act 1968
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218 Industrial designs
(1) Division 8 of Part III does not apply to artistic works made before the commencement of this Act.
(2) Copyright does not subsist by virtue of this Act in an artistic work made before the commencement of this Act which, at the time when the work was made, constituted a design capable of being registered under the Designs Act 1906, or under that Act as amended and in force at that time, and was used, or intended to be used, as a model or pattern to be multiplied by an industrial process.