Patents Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES.

1934. No. 134.

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REGULATIONS UNDER THE PATENTS ACT 1903-1934.*

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 1903-1934.

Dated this thirty-first day of October, 1934.

ISAAC A. ISAACS

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

ROBERT G. MENZIES

Attorney-General.

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Amendment of the Patents Regulations, 1912.

Repeal of regulations 20-26.

1.Regulations 20 to 26 (inclusive) of the Patents Regulations, 1912, and the heading appearing before regulation 20 of those Regulations are repealed.

Board of Examiners.

2. Regulation 170 of the Patents Regulations, 1912 is amended by inserting in sub-regulation (1), after the words “shall consist of—”, the following paragraph:—

“(a) the Commissioner of Patents, or, during the absence from Australia, leave, or illness of the Commissioner of Patents, the Deputy Commissioner of Patents;”.

3. Regulation 171 of the Patents Regulations, 1912 is repealed and the following regulation inserted in its stead:—

Chairman of Board of Examiners.

“171.—(1.) The Commissioner of Patents or, in the absences of the Commissioner from any meeting of the Board, the Deputy Commissioner of Patents, shall be Chairman of the Board at that meeting, and, in the absence of both the Commissioner and the Deputy Commissioner from any meeting of the Board, the other members of the Board shall appoint one of their number to be Chairman for that meeting.

(2.) In the case of an equality of votes, the Chairman for the time being shall have a casting as well as a deliberative vote”.

* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on 1st November, 1934.

 Statutory Rules 1912, No. 70, as amended by Statutory Rules 1918, No. 810; 1914, No. 69; 1915, No. 267;1916, Nos. 45 and 162; 1918, No. 142; 1919, Nos. 14, 80 and 239: 1929, No. 187; 1923, Nos. 79 and 180: 1934, No. 115; 1939, No. 148; 1931, Nos. 88 and 147; 1932, Nos. 80 and 69: 1933, Nos. 52, 57 and 90; and by 1934, No. 86.

4693.—Price 3d.

Amendment of First Schedule.

4. The First Schedule to the Patents Regulations 1912 is amended by omitting from the column headed “Corresponding Form” the letters and figures “A8, A9,”

Amendment of Second Schedule.

5. The Second Schedule to the Patents Regulations, 1912 is amended—

(a)by omitting from the Index to Patent Forms the items A8 and A9; and

(b) by omitting Forms A8 and A9.

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