PATENTS ACT (PARTIAL SUSPENSION).
No. 13 of 1916.
An Act to suspend the operation of Section Eighty-seven a of the Patents Act 1903-1909 during the continuance of the present War and for a period of six months thereafter.
[Assented to 30th May, 1916.]
BE it enacted by the King’s Most Excellent Majesty, the Senate, and the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Australia, as follows:—
Short title.
1. This Act may be cited as the Patents Act (Partial Suspension) Act 1916.
Temporary suspension of the Patents Act 1903-1909, s. 87a.
2. The operation of section eighty-seven a of the Patents Act 1903-1909 shall be suspended during the continuance of the present war, and for a period of six months thereafter, and in reckoning the period of four years mentioned in that section the period during which that section is suspended by virtue of this Act shall not be taken in account.