s 59 Effect of acts done before 21 November 2021
59.—(1) Sections 53, 54, 55, 56, 57 and 58 do not apply for the purposes of deciding —(a) whether a work has been published by virtue of an act done before 21 November 2021; (b) whether a publication of a work before 21 November 2021 is the first publication of the work; or (c) whether a work is, by virtue of an act done before 21 November 2021, published in the lifetime of a person. (2) Despite the repeal of the 1987 Act, section 24 of that Act applies instead for those purposes (as modified, where applicable, by section 209 of that Act). (3) In this section, “work” means an authorial work, an edition of an authorial work, a sound recording or a film.