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COPYRIGHT REGULA 110NS, 2010
(4) The approval or refusal shall be communicated by the Minister
within twenty-one days after the receipt of the application for approval.
Conditions for approval
23. The Minister shall not grant approval for a society to operate unless
that society
(a) is a body corporate registered as a company limited by guarantee
under the Companies Act, 1963 (Act 179),
(b) if it is a music, audiovisual rights, performers rights or
literary rights society, provides evidence of having func
tional presence in at least two regions as follows:
(e) keeps a national and regional register and provides evidence
of these registers,
(d) provides ,evidence where
(i) the society is a music rights or performers rights
society that it has at least twenty members in each
of the regions in which it has a functional, or
(ii) the society is a literary rights or audiovisuals rights
society, that it has at least fifty members at the
national level,
and each member has at least one published work or holds
the entire economic rights on one published work.
Duration, renewal and revocation of approval
24. (l) A grant of approval to a society is for a period of five years
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and is renewable every five years.
(2) An application for the renewal of an approval shall be subject
to the same conditions as the first grant of approval under regulation 22.
(3) The Minister may suspend or revoke an approval if a society
breaches any of the conditions for the grant of an approval or any of the
provisions of these Regulations.
(4) Where a grant of approval is suspended, the' Minister shall
give notice in writing to the affected society and in the notice of the
suspension, state the breach which has caused the suspension and specify
the time within which the society shall remedy the breach.
(5) The Minister shall not revoke an approval unless
(a) notice of the intended revocation has been served on the
affected society at least fourteen days before the effective date
of the revocation;
(b) the affected society has been given the opportunity to appear