Patents, Trade Marks, Designs and Copyright (War Powers) Regulations 1939 (Amendment) (Cth)

STATUTORY RULES.

1940. No. 82.

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REGULATIONS UNDER THE PATENTS TRADE MARKS, DESIGNS AND COPYRIGHT (WAR POWERS) ACT 1939.*

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, Trade Marks, Designs and Copyright (War Powers) Act 1939.

Dated this Third

day of May, 1940.

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

(Sgd.) W. M. HUGHES.

Attorney-General.

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Amendments of the Patents, Trade Marks, Designs and Copyright (War Powers) Regulations. 

Hearing of persons interested.

1. Regulation 7 of the Patents, Trade Marks, Designs and Copyright (War Powers) Regulations is amended by omitting from sub-regulation (1.) the word “this” and inserting in its stead the word “the”.

2. Regulation 10 of the Patents, Trade Marks, Designs and Copyright (War Powers) Regulations is repealed and the following regulation inserted in its stead:—

Payment of fees in certain cases.

“10.—(1.) Where any person satisfies the Commissioner or Registrar that he proposes to make, or has made, an application under section 6 or section 7of the Act, the Commissioner or Registrar may permit that person to pay any fee necessary to enable the sealing of the patent or registration of the trade mark or design, in respect of which the application is proposed to be made, or has been made, to be effected.

“(2.) Where a licence (whether granted under the Act or otherwise) is in force in respect of a patent or registered design of which an enemy subject is, or has been, during the present state of war, the proprietor, the Commissioner or Registrar may permit the licensee to pay any fee necessary to maintain the grant of the patent or registration of the design.”.

 

* Notified in the Commonwealth Gazette on  , 1940.

  Statutory Rules 1939, No. 175.

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

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