Bounty (Computers) Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

Statutory Rules 1987 No. 2181

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Bounty (Computers) Regulations2

(Amendment)

I, THE ADMINISTRATOR of the Government of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, hereby make the following Regulations under the Bounty (Computers) Act 1984.

Dated 25 September 1987.

J. A. ROWLAND

Administrator

By His Excellency’s Command,

BARRY JONES

Minister of State for Science and Small Business

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Commencement

1. These Regulations shall come into operation on 1 October 1987.

Prescribed costs

2. Regulation 3 of the Bounty (Computers) Regulations is amended by adding at the end the following subregulation:

“(2) In this regulation, ‘royalties’ includes any amount paid or credited, however described or computed, and whether the payment or credit is periodical or not, to the extent to which it is paid or credited, as the case may be, as consideration for;

(a) the use of, or the right to use, any copyright, patent, design or model, plan, secret formula or process, trademark or other like property or right;

(b) the use of, or the right to use, any industrial, commercial or scientific equipment;

 

(c) the supply of scientific, technical, industrial or commercial knowledge or information;

(d) the supply of any assistance that is ancillary and subsidiary to, and is furnished as a means of enabling the application or enjoyment of, any such property or right as is mentioned in paragraph (a), any such equipment as is mentioned in paragraph (b) or any such knowledge or information as is mentioned in paragraph (c); or

(e) a total or partial forbearance in respect of:

(i) the use of, or the granting of the right to use, any such property or right as is mentioned in paragraph (a) or any such equipment as is mentioned in paragraph (b); or

(ii) the supply of any knowledge or information as is mentioned in paragraph (c) or of any such assistance as is mentioned in paragraph (d).”.

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NOTES

1. Notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette on 30 September 1987.

2. Statutory Rules 1987 No. 27.