STATUTORY RULES.

1910. No. 58.

PROVISIONAL REGULATIONS UNDER THE PATENTS ACT 1903-1909.

I, THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL in and over the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, hereby certify that, on account of urgency, the following Regulations under the Patents Act 1903-1909 should come into immediate operation, and make the Regulations to come into operation forthwith as Provisional Regulations.

Dated this eighth day of June, One thousand nine hundred and ten.

DUDLEY,

Governor-General.

By His Excellency’s Command,

FRANK G. TUDOR,

Minister of State for Trade and Customs.

Patents Regulations.

1. Paragraph (2) of Regulation 38 of the Patents Regulations, 1909 (Statutory Rules 1909, No. 96), is repealed, and the following paragraphs are substituted in lieu thereof:—

“(2.) One copy of every complete specification shall be lodged at the Patent Office at the same time as the original.

“(2a.) The Commissioner may require that, before an application is accepted, five additional copies of the complete specification be lodged at the Patent Office.”

2. Paragraph (2) of Regulation 48 of the Patents Regulations, 1909, is repealed, and the following paragraph is substituted in lieu thereof:—

“(2.) The Commissioner may require that, before an application is accepted, a fac-simile of the original drawings prepared on tracing cloth be also lodged.”

3. Forms A, A1, A2, A3, A4, A5, A6, A7, A8, A9, and A10 in the Second Schedule to the Patents Regulations 1909, are amended by omitting the words “A copy of Form C, and 6 copies of Form C1,” and inserting in lieu thereof the words, “A copy each of Forms C and C1.”

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