Patents Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES.

1933. No. 57.

 

REGULATIONS UNDER THE PATENTS ACT 1903-1932.

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 1903-1932.

Dated this first day of May, 1933.

(Sgd.) ISAAC A. ISAACS.

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

Attorney-General.

 

Amendments of Patents Regulations, 1912.

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

1. After regulation 183 of the Patents Regulations the following regulation is added:—

Arbitration proceedings.

“184.—(1.) Where, in pursuance of section 92 of the Act, it is necessary to settle by arbitration the terms upon which an invention may be used for the Public Service the arbitration proceedings shall, subject to this regulation, be conducted according to the laws relating to arbitration in force in the State or part of the Commonwealth in which the arbitration takes place.

(2.) The provisions of the laws referred to in the last preceding sub-regulation shall apply in relation to the arbitration as if the arbitration were pursuant to a submission to arbitration within the meaning of those laws.

(3.) Any arbitrator conducting an arbitration to which this regulation applies, or, in the event of the appointment of an umpire, the umpire shall for the purposes of the arbitration have power—

(a) to summon witnesses;

(b) to require the production of documents; and

(c) to administer oaths or affirmations.

(4.) The doing of any act by any person summoned as a witness under this Regulation, or the refusal or failure to do any act by any such person, the doing of which or the refusal or failure to do which would, if the arbitration were an inquiry by a Royal Commission appointed under the Royal Commissions Act 1902-1912, be an offence against that Act, shall be an offence against these Regulations, and shall be punishable by a fine not exceeding Fifty pounds or by imprisonment not exceeding three months.”.

 

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

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