Patents Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES

1965 No. 102

 

REGULATIONS UNDER THE PATENTS ACT 1952-1962.*

I, THE ADMINISTRATOR of the Government of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, hereby make the following Regulations under the Patents Act 1952-1962.

Dated this thirty-first day of July, 1965.

HENRY ABEL SMITH

Administrator.

By His Excellency’s Command,

B. M. SNEDDEN.

Attorney-General.

 

Amendments of the Patents Regulations. 

Fees.

1.—(1.) Regulation 5 of the Patents Regulations is amended by inserting after sub-regulation (5.) the following sub-regulation:—

“(5a.) Where by reason of an error or omission on the part of an officer or person employed in the Patent Office, acceptance has been delayed, but not beyond the time prescribed by sub-section (1.) of section 54 of the Act, such period as is, in the opinion of the Commissioner, equal to the period of delay that resulted from the error or omission shall not, for the purpose of ascertaining the amount of any fee payable under item 6 or 7 in the Second Schedule to these Regulations, be taken into account.”.

(2.) This regulation shall be deemed to have come into operation on the eleventh day of January, 1962.

Second Schedule-Item 8.

2. The Second Schedule to the Patents Regulations is amended by omitting item 8 and inserting in its stead the following item:—

“8 On lodging a request under sub-section (3.) of section 52 for postponement of acceptance 3 0 0”.

Second Schedule—Item 36.

3. The Second Schedule to the Patents Regulations is amended by omitting from item 36 the words “paid under item 30” and inserting in their stead the words “paid under paragraph (a) of item 34”.

 

* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on 5 August, 1965.

  Statutory Rules 1962, No. 2,as amended by Statutory Rules 1963, No. 52.

 

By Authority: A. J. Arthur, Commonwealth Government Printer, Canberra

1619/64.—Price 6d. 10/23.6.1965