Patents Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

STATUTORY RUBES,

1934. No. 39.

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REGULATIONS UNDER THE PATENTS ACT 1903‑1933.

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 1903‑1933.

Dated this twenty‑eighth day of March, 1934.

ISAAC A. ISAACS

Governor‑General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

A. J. McLACHLAN

Acting Attorney‑General.

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Amendment of Patents Regulations, 1912.

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

1. Regulation 14 of the Patents Regulations, 1912 is amended—

(a) by omitting sub‑regulation (1) and inserting in its stead the following sub‑regulation:—

“(1) Every complete specification must be accepted within twelve months from the date of application, or within such extended period as the Commissioner, in pursuance of any power conferred otherwise than by this regulation, allows or has allowed, or within such extended period or further extended period (as the case may be), not exceeding three months, as the Commissioner, on application and on payment of the prescribed fee, allows.”; and

(b) by omitting from paragraph (c) of sub‑regulation (2) the words “the period of fifteen months from the date of application” and inserting in their stead the words “such extended period or further extended period as the Commissioner, in pursuance of any power conferred otherwise than by this paragraph, allows or has allowed.”.

2. The last preceding regulation shall be deemed to have come into operation on the ninth day of March, One thousand nine hundred and thirty‑three.

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

1932.—Price 3d.