REGULATIONS UNDER THE PATENTS ACT 1903-1930.
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 1903-1930, to come into operation as from the dates specified herein.
Dated this thirteenth day of July, 1932.
ISAAC A. ISAACS
Governor-General.
By His Excellency’s Command,
A. J. MCLACHLAN
for the Attorney-General.
Amendment of Patents Regulations, 1912.
(Statutory Rules 1912, No.76, as amended to this date.)
Time limit for acceptance of complete specification.
1.—(1.) Regulation 14 of the Patents Regulations, 1912 is amended—
(a) by omitting from paragraph (a) of sub-regulation (2.) the word “and” (last occurring);
(b) by omitting from paragraph (c) of sub-regulation (2.) the words “under sub-regulation (1.) of this regulation”
(c) by omitting the proviso to paragraph (c) of sub-regulation (2.); and
(d) by inserting after sub-regulation (2.) the following sub-regulation:—
“(2a.) The fee payable under paragraph (c) of sub-regulation (2.) of this regulation shall be in addition to the fee for an extension of three months under regulation 14 (1.) where no extension under that regulation has previously been allowed, or where an extension for less than three months under that regulation has previously been allowed, in addition to the fee for the remainder of that period.”
(2.) This regulation shall be deemed to have come into operation on the first day of January, One thousand nine hundred and thirty-two.
2.—(1.) Regulation 181d of the Patents Regulations is repealed and the following regulation inserted in its stead:—
Rights of persons who have passed examination under repealed Regulations.
“181d.—(1.) Notwithstanding anything contained in Statutory Rules 1931, No. 147, regulations 175 to 181a inclusive of the regulations repealed thereby (which regulations are in this regulation referred to
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as ‘the repealed regulations’) shall until the first day of January, One thousand nine hundred and thirty-five, continue to apply to any person who, prior to the first day of January, One thousand nine hundred and thirty-three—
(a) has passed in at least one subject of any examination conducted by the Board under the repealed regulations; or
(b) is in possession of a certificate issued to him by a University or other public examining body in respect of at least one prescribed subject, which certificate has been accepted by the Board in lieu of examination by the Board in that subject.
“(2.) Any such person who, before the first day of January, One thousand nine hundred and thirty-five, completes the examination held under the repealed regulations shall be deemed to have passed the prescribed examination within the meaning of section 101 of the Act, and the provisions of regulation 181c shall apply to him accordingly, but any such person who has not before that date completed the examination held under the repealed regulations shall be required, in order to be eligible for registration as a patent attorney, to qualify in the manner set out in Statutory Rules 1931, No. 147.
“(3.) Examinations under the repealed regulations shall be held once a year in the month of November.”
(2.) The amendment made by this regulation shall come into operation on the first day of January, One thousand nine hundred and thirty-three.
By Authority: L. F. Johnston, Commonwealth Government Printer, Canberra.