Designs Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES

1969 No. 64

 

REGULATIONS UNDER THE DESIGNS ACT 1906-1968.*

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 1906-1968.

Dated this first day of May, 1969.

PAUL HASLUCK

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

Sgd. NIGEL BOWEN

Attorney-General.

 

Amendments of the Designs Regulations 1906

1. Regulations 1 and 2 of the Designs Regulations 1906 are repealed and the following regulations inserted in their stead:—

Citation.

“1. These Regulations may be cited as the Designs Regulations.

Parts.

“2. These Regulations are divided into Parts, as follows:—

Part I.—Preliminary.

Division 1.—General Provisions (Regulations 1-9).

Division 2.—Agents (Regulations 10-13).

Part II.—Registration of Designs (Regulations 14-25).

Part IIa.—Extension of Period of Registration (Regulation 25a).

Part III.—Appeals.

Division 1.—Appeal to the Law Officer (Regulations 26-31).

Division 2.—Appeal to the Supreme Court (Regulations 32-36).

Part IV.—The Register of Designs.

Division 1.—General (Regulations 37-43).

Division 2.—Correction or Rectification of the Register (Regulations 44-47).

Part V.—Miscellaneous (Regulations 48-60).”.

2. After regulation 20 of the Designs Regulations 1906 the following regulation is inserted:—

Designs excluded from registration.

“20a.—(1.) For the purposes of sub-section (2.) of section 17 of the Act, designs for articles included in any of the classes of articles specified in the next succeeding sub-regulation are excluded from registration under the Act.

 

* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on 1969.

  Statutory Rules 1907, No 51, as amended by Statutory Rules 1913, No. 173; 1930, No. 150; 1934, Nos. 1 and 121; 1935, Nos. 24 and 73; 1937, No. 53; 1940, No. 6; 1941, No. 67; 1945, Nos. 143 and 200; 1952, No. 64; and 1954, No. 82.

13229/69—Price 5c 10/31.3.1969

 

“(2.) The classes of articles are—

(a) works of sculpture other than casts or models used or intended to be used as models or patterns to be multiplied by an industrial process;

(b) wall plaques;

(c) medals; and

(d) articles that are primarily literary or artistic in character and on which there is printing, including—

(i) bookjackets;

(ii) calendars;

(iii) certificates, forms and other documents;

(iv) dressmaking patterns;

(v) greetings cards;

(vi) leaflets;

(vii) maps;

(viii) plans;

(ix) postcards;

(x) labels; and

(xi) transfers.

“(3.) For the purposes of sub-paragraph (xi) of paragraph (d)of the last preceding sub-regulation, ‘transfer’ means an article on which there is printed matter and which is made for the purpose, and is capable, of being transferred to the surface of another article,”.

Printed for the Government of the Commonwealth by W. G. Murray at the Government Printing Office, Canberra