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(17) Certain acts not to be infringement of copyright :⎯
(i) any matter which has been published in any official Gazette except an Act of Parliament;
(ii) the report of any committee, commission, council, board or such other bodies appointed by the Government unless the reproduction or publication of such matter or report is prohibited by the Government;
(iii) any Act of Parliament subject to the condition that such Act is reproduced or published together with any commentary thereon or any other original matter;
(iv) any judgment or order of a court, tribunal or other judicial authority, unless the reproduction or publication of such judgment or order is prohibited by the court, the tribunal or other judicial authority, as the case may be;
(18) the production or publication of a translation in any language of an Act of Parliament and of any rules or orders made there under namely :⎯
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(ii) Where a translation of such Act or rules or orders in that language has been produced or published by the Government, if the translation is not available for sale to the public:
Provided that such translation contains a statement at a prominent place to the effect that the translation has not been authorized or accepted as authentic by the Government;
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