CHAPTER II - THE COPYRIGHT BOARD

 

3.    Terms and conditions of office of the Chairman and members of the Copyright Board.

3. (1) The Chairman and other members of the Copyright Board shall be appointed for such period not exceeding five years as the Central Government may in each case deem fit.

(2) The Chairman and other members of the Copyright Board shall, on the expiry of the period of their appointment, be eligible for re-appointment.

(3) The Chairman or any other member of the Copyright Board may resign his office by giving three months' notice in writing to the Central Government.

Footnotes
1. Vide Notification No. SRO 270, dated 21-1-1958.
2. The Act came into force on 21st January, 1958, vide Notification No. SRO 269, dated 21-1-1958, published in Gazette of India, Extraordinary, Pt. II, Section 3, dated 21-1-1958, at p. 167.
 3. Inserted by the Copyright (Amendment) Rules, 1995, w.e.f. 10-5-1995.

 

(4) The Chairman and other members of the Copyright Board shall be paid such salary or honorarium as may be determined by the Central Government in each case.

(5) A non-official appointed as the Chairman or other members of the Copyright Board shall be entitled to travelling allowances for journeys performed on duty and to daily allowances for the period on duty on the scale provided in the rules applicable to the class of officers to which the Central Government may declare him to correspond in status :

Provided that it shall be competent for the Central Government to provide a different scale of such allowances if the circumstances of any case so require.

(6) An official appointed as the Chairman or other members of the Copyright Board shall be entitled to such travelling allowances for journeys performed on duty and to such daily allowances for the period spent on duty as may be admissible to him as such official.

(7) The other conditions of service of the Chairman and other members of the Copyright Board shall be regulated by orders made in that behalf by the Central Government from time to time.

4.    Functions of the Secretary of the Copyright Board. 

4. The registrar of Copyrights shall perform all secretarial functions relating to the Copyright Board under the direction and control of the Chairman of the Copyright Board.

Note.- See sections 11 and 12 of the Act for statutory power as to the constitutions of the Board and its powers and procedure.