(4) In this section
"collecting society" means an organisation which has as its main object, or one of its main
objects, the negotiating for the collection and distribution of royalties and the granting of licenses in
respect of copyright works or performer's rights; and
"competent authority" means an authority of not less than three and not more than five
persons, one of whom shall be a person qualified as an advocate of the High Court of Kenya of not
less than seven years' standing or a person who holds or has held judicial office in Kenya who shall
be the chairman, appointed by the Minister for the purpose of exercising jurisdiction under this Act
where any matter requires to be determined by such authority.
(5) No person shall be appointed under this -, nor shall any person so appointed act as a member competent authority, if he, his partner, his employer -body (whether statutory or not) of which he is a
member has a pecuniary interest in any matter which -es to be determined by the authority.
PART VII - MISCELLANEOUS
49. The Minister may make regulations (-)for the better carrying out of the provisions of this Act
and, without prejudice to the generality of the (-), the Minister may in such regulations
(a) prescribe anything required by this Act to he prescribed;
(b) extend the application of this Act in respect of any or all of the works referred to in section 22(1)
(i) to individuals or bodies corporate who are citizens of, domiciled or resident in or
incorporated under the laws of; or
(ii) to works, other than sound recordings, first published in; or
(iii) to sound recordings made or published in Kenya or a country which is a party to a treaty
to which Kenya is also a party and which provides for the protection of copyright and related rights
in works to which the application of this Act extends;
(c) restrict the right of an author to control the translation or the reproduction of his work up to the
extent permitted by any Copyright Convention for the time being in force in Kenya;
(d) authorise and prescribe the terms and conditions governing any specified use of folklore, except
by a national public entity for non-commercial purposes, or the importation of any work made
abroad which embodies folklore.
50.(1) This Act shall apply to
(a) works, performances, sound recordings and broadcasts made prior to the commencement of this Act,
where the term of protection had not expired under the former Act or under the legislation of the