Patents Regulations 1912 (Amendment) (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES.

1920. No. 137.

 

REGULATION UNDER THE PATENTS ACT 1903-1909.

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 Patents Act 1903-1909, to come into operation forthwith.

Dated this twenty-eighth day of July, 1920.

R. M. FERGUSON,

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

W. MASSY GREENE,

for Attorney-General.

 

Amendment of the Patents Regulations.

(Statutory Rules 1912, No. 76, as amended to this date.)

After regulation 182 of the Patents Regulations the following regulation is inserted under the heading “Miscellaneous”:—

Extensions of time necessitated by vacancy in office of Commissioner.

“182a.—(1) Where, in consequence of any vacancy in the office of Commissioner of Patents, any act or step in relation to an application for a patent, required to be done or taken within a certain time, has not been so done or taken, the Commissioner or Acting Commissioner may—

(a) extend the time for doing the act or taking the step; and

(b)permit the act to be done or the step to be taken.

(2) The prescribed time for doing any act or taking any step may be extended under this regulation although the time has expired.

(3) No extension for a longer period than one month may be granted under this regulation.”

    

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