Designs Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES.

1937. No. 53.

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REGULATIONS UNDER THE DESIGNS ACT 1906-1934.*

I, THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL, in and over the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, hereby make the following Regulations under the Designs Act 1906-1934.

Dated this nineteenth day of May, 1937.

(SGD.) GOWRIE.

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

Sgd. ROBERT G. MENZIES.

Attorney-General.

 

Amendments or the Designs Regulations 1906.

Definitions.

1. Regulation 3 of the Designs Regulations 1906 is amended by inserting before the definition of “The Act” the following definition:—

“‘Design to be applied to a set of articles’ means a design (with or without modifications or variations not, in the opinion of the Registrar, sufficient to alter the character thereof or substantially to affect the identity thereof) to be applied to aricles which, in the opinion of the Registrar, constitute a set of articles.”.

2. Regulation 16 of the Designs Regulations 1906 is repealed and the following regulation inserted in its stead:—

Requisites of application.

“16.—(1.) An application for the registration of a design—

(a) shall, in describing the nature of the design, state whether the design is to be applied to the purpose of the ornamentation, pattern, shape or configuration of the article or articles to which it is to be applied and the way in, or the means by, which it is to be applied; and

(b) shall be accompanied by Form B, to which shall be attached a sketch, specimen, drawing or photograph of the design which, in the opinion of the Registrar, is suitable for reproduction and record purposes.

“(2.) Where an application is made for the registration of a design to be applied to a set of articles, the sketch, specimen, drawing or photograph of the design attached to Form B shall show the various arrangements in which it is proposed to apply the design to the articles included in the set.”.

 

* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on  , 1937.

  Statutory Rules 1907, No. 51, as amended by Statutory Rules, 1913, No. 173; 1930, No. 150; 1934, Nos. 1 and 121; and 1935, Nos. 24 and 78.

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First Schedule.

3. The First Schedule to the Designs Regulations 1906 is amended—

(a) by adding at the end of Class 4 the words,” but not including articles comprised in Class 4a.”.

(b) by inserting after Class 4 the following Class:—

“4a. Articles for household use composed wholly or chiefly of glass, earthenware or porcelain.”.

Second Schedule.

4. The Second Schedule to the Designs Regulations 1908 is amended—

(a) by omitting items 1 and 1a and inserting in their stead the following items:—

1. On application to register one design to be applied to a set of articles, or to one or more articles, included in any one class, except classes 4a, 6a, 7, 12 and 13	1	0	0
“1a. On application to register one design to be applied to a set of articles, or to one or more articles, included in classes 4a or 6a	0	5	0”;

(b) by inserting in items 2a, 2b and 2c, after the word “classes” (first occurring in each item), the figure and letter “4a,”; and

(c) by inserting in items 2a, 2b and 2c, after the word “class” (second occurring in each item), the word, figure and letter “4a or”.

Third Schedule.

5. The Third Schedule to the Designs Regulations 1906 is amended—

(a) by omitting from Forms A, Al and A2 the words “Only articles comprised in any one class may be set out here” and inserting in their stead the words “Here state the articles or set of articles to which the design is to be applied”; and

(b) by omitting from Form B the words “Note.—Seven of these Additional Representations of the Design, and Five Unaffixed Representations, must accompany each application.”.

 

By Authority: L. F. Johnston, Commonwealth Government Printer, Canberra.