OPC66256 - A  
 
Copyright (International Protection) 
Amendment Regulations  2022 
I, General the Honourable David Hurley AC DSC (Retd), Governor -General of the 
Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, 
make the following regulations.  
Dated    15 December  2022  
David Hurley  
Governor -General  
By His Excellency’s Command  
Mark Dreyfus KC  
Attorney -General  
 
 
 
   
   
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OPC66256 - A Contents  
1 Name  ................................ ................................ ................................ ...........................  1 
2 Commencement  ................................ ................................ ................................ ..........  1 
3 Authority  ................................ ................................ ................................ .....................  1 
4 Schedules  ................................ ................................ ................................ ....................  1 
Schedule  1—Amendments  2 
Part 1—Amendments  2 
Copyright (International Protection) Regulations  1969  2 
Part 2—Application of amendments  4 
Copyright (International Protection) Regulations  1969  4 
 
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OPC66256 - A 1  Name  
  This instrument is  the Copyright (International Protection) Amendment 
Regulations 2022 . 
2  Commencement  
 (1) Each provision of this instrument  specified in column 1 of the table commences, 
or is taken to have commenced, in accordance with column 2 of the table. Any 
other statement in column 2 has effect according to its terms.  
 
Commencement information  
Column 1  Column 2  Column 3  
Provisions  Commencement  Date/Details  
1.  The whole of this 
instrument  1 January  2023 . 1 January  2023  
Note:  This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument  as originally made. It will 
not be amended to deal with any later amendments of this instrument . 
 (2) Any information in column 3 of the table is not part of this instrument . 
Information may be inserted in this column, or information in it may be edited, in 
any published version of this instrument . 
3  Authority  
  This instrument is  made under the Copy right Act 1968 . 
4  Schedules  
  Each instrument  that is specified in a Schedule to this instrument  is amended or 
repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any 
other item in a Schedule to this instrument  has effect according to its terms.  
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OPC66256 - A Schedule  1—Amendments  
Part 1—Amendments  
Copyright (International Protection) Regulations  1969 
1  Schedule  3 (table)  
Omit “Bahamas, The”, substitute “Bahamas”.  
2  Schedule  3 (table)  
Insert:  
Belize  
3  Schedule  3 (table)  
Omit “Bolivia”, substitute “Bolivia (Plurinational State of)”.  
4  Schedule  3 (table)  
Insert:  
Congo  
Cook Islands  
5  Schedule  3 (table)  
Omit “Czech Republic”, substitute “Czechia”.  
6  Schedule  3 (table)  
Omit “Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia”.  
7  Schedu le 3 (table)  
Omit “Holy See, The”, substitute “Holy See”.  
8  Schedule  3 (table)  
Insert:  
Kiribati  
9  Schedule  3 (table)  
Omit “Moldova, Republic of”.  
10  Schedule  3 (table)  
Insert:  
North Macedonia  
Republic of Moldova  
Sao Tome and Principe  
Senegal  
11  Schedule  3 (table)  
Omit “Slovak Republic”, substitute “Slovakia”.  
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OPC66256 - A 12  Schedule  3 (table)  
Omit “Turkey”, substitute “ Türkiye”.  
13  Schedule  3 (table)  
Omit “United Kingdom”, substitute “United Kingdom of Great Britain  and Northern 
Ireland”.  
14  Schedule  3 (table)  
Insert:  
Vanuatu  
15  Schedule  3 (table)  
Omit “Venezuela”, substitute “Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of)”.  
16  Schedule  3 (table)  
Omit “Vietnam”, substitute “Viet Nam”.  
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OPC66256 - A Part 2—Application of amendments  
Copyright (International Protection) Regulations  1969 
17  In the appropriate position in  Part 4 
Insert : 
16  Amendments made by the Copyright (International Protection) Amendment 
Regulations  2022 
  The amendments of Schedule  3 to these regulations made by Part 1 of 
Schedule  1 to the Copyright (International Protection) Amendment 
Regulations  2022 apply in relation to:  
 (a) a recording heard in public on or after 1 January  2023; and  
 (b) a broadcast made on or after 1 January  2023.  
Note:  Part 1 of Schedule  1 to the Copyright (Internatio nal Protection) Amendment 
Regulations  2022 commences on 1 January  2023.  
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