Patent Attorneys Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES

1969 No.

 

REGULATIONS UNDER THE PATENTS ACT 1952-1969*

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 Patents Act 1952-1966.

Dated this twenty-seventh day of December, 1969.

Paul Hasluck

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

Attorney-General.

 

Amendments of the Patent Attorneys Regulations

Time for holding examinations.

1. Regulation 13 of the Patent Attorneys Regulations is amended by adding at the end thereof the following sub-regulation:—

“(3.) Sub-regulation (1.) of this regulation does not apply to supplementary examinations under regulation 18 of these Regulations.”.

Report as to reasons for failure.

2. Regulation 17 of the Patent Attorneys Regulations is amended by inserting after the word “makes” the words “, within one month after being notified by the Board that he has failed in the subject,”,

Supplementary examinations.

3. Regulation 18 of the Patent Attorneys Regulations is amended by adding at the end thereof the following sub-regulation:—

“(2.) Where a candidate who has been prevented by illness or other sufficient cause from submitting a paper in any subject makes application, within one month of the date on which the examination in that subject was held, for the grant of a supplementary examination in that subject, the Board may, in its discretion, grant the examination.”.

Other qualification required.

4. Regulation 20 of the Patent Attorneys Regulations is amended by adding at the end thereof the following sub-regulation:—

“(4.) An approval by the Board of a course or examination for the purposes of this regulation may specify that the course or examination approved is a course completed, or an examination passed, after a specified date or during a specified period.”.

 

* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on 1969.

  Statutory Rules 1954. No. 40, as amended by Statutory Rules 1957, No. 2; 1960, No, 14; and 1964, No. 3.

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