Designs Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES.

1934. No. 1.

 

REGULATIONS UNDER THE DESIGNS ACT 1906-1933.

I, THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL in and over the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, do hereby make the following Regulations under the Designs Act 1906-1933.

Dated this twenty-third day of December, 1933.

ISAAC A. ISAACS

Governor -General.

By His Excellency’s Command

J. G. LATHAM

Attorney-General.

 

Amendment of Designs Regulations 1906.

(Statutory Rules 1907, No. 51; as amended to this date.)

1. Regulation 25a of the Designs. Regulations 1906 is repealed and the following regulation inserted in its stead:—

“Extension of period of registration.

25a.—(1) An application for the extension of the period of registration of a design for a second or third period of five years—

(a) shall be made at any time after the registration of the design but not later than three months after the expiration of the first or second period of five years respectively;

(b) shall be lodged at the Designs Office or sub-office;

(c) may be in accordance with Form N or Form O respectively; and

(d) shall be accompanied by the prescribed fee:

Provided that in the case of a design the registration of which expired on or after 1st January, 1933, but before the date on which this regulation takes effect, the application may be made within three months from the date on which this regulation takes effect, and, for the purposes of items 2a and 2b in the Second Schedule to these Regulations the period of registration shall be deemed to have expired on the date on which this regulation takes effect.

(2.) If the Registrar grants an application for the extension of the period of registration of a design for a second period of five years, or for a third period of five years, an entry of the extension of the period of registration shall be made in the Register of Designs, and the Registrar shall send to the registered proprietor at his registered address, or his address for service, a notice that the period of registration has been extended for a second period of five years, or a third period of five years, as the case may be.

(3.) The extension of the period of registration of a design shall be advertised in the Official Journal.

75.—Price. 3d.

Amendment of Second Schedule.

2. The Second Schedule to the Designs Regulations 1906 is amended by inserting at the end of item 2a and 2b the following words and figures:—

s.	d.
Additional fee payable on each application lodged after expiration of period of registration—for each month or portion of a month after expiration of period
	5	0

Amendment of' Forms N and O—Third Schedule.

3. The Third Schedule to the Designs Regulations 1906 is amended by omitting from Form N and Form O the figures “1906-1912” (wherever occurring) and inserting in their stead the figures “1906-1933”.

 

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