National Security (General) Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)
STATUTORY RULES.
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REGULATION UNDER THE NATIONAL SECURITY ACT 1939-1940.*
I,
THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL in and over the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the
advice of the Federal Executive Council, hereby make the following Regulation
under the
Dated this twenty seventh day of November, 1940.
Governor-General.
By His Excellency’s Command,
Minister of State for Defence Co-ordination.
Amendment of the National Security (General) Regulations.
Regulation 57a of the National Security (General) Regulations is amended by omitting sub-regulations (1.) and (2.) and inserting in their stead the following sub-regulations:—
“(1.) At any time after a patent has been granted or an application for a patent has been received in the Patent Office (whether the patent has been granted or the application has been received before or after the commencement of this sub-regulation)—
(
a ) the Commonwealth;(
b ) any contractor with the Commonwealth; or(
c ) any person performing any work or service, or supplying any goods, necessary for the execution of any contract with the Commonwealth,
may make, use, or exercise the invention for the services of the Commonwealth in connexion with the defence of the Commonwealth on such terms as are, either before or after the making, use or exercise of the invention, agreed upon, or, in default of agreement, as are fixed by the Attorney-General.
“(2.) The terms of any agreement or licence entered into between an inventor, applicant or patentee, and any person other than the Commonwealth shall be inoperative so far as concerns the making, use or exercise of the invention for the services of the Commonwealth.”.
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Notified in the
Statutory Rules 1939, No. 87, as amended by Statutory Rules 1939, Nos. 103, 174, and 177; and 1940, Nos. 8, 32, 34, 45, 67, 71, 90, 91, 93, 113, 118, 119, 120, 127, 171, 175, 187, and 191.
By Authority: L. F. Johnston, Commonwealth Government Printer, Canberra.
6524.—6/22.10.1940.—Price 3d.
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