PATENTS, TRADE MARKS, DESIGNS AND COPYRIGHT (WAR POWERS).
No. 32 of 1940.
An Act to amend the Patents, Trade Marks, Designs and Copyright (War Powers) Act 1939.
[Assented to 3rd June, 1940.]
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 and citation.
1.—(1.) This Act may be cited as the Patents, Trade Marks, Designs and Copyright (War Powers) Act 1940.
(2.) The Patents, Trade Marks, Designs and Copyright (War Powers) Act 1939 is in this Act referred to as the Principal Act.
(3.) The Principal Act, as amended by this Act, may be cited as the Patents, Trade Marks, Designs and Copyright (War Powers) Act 1939-1940.
Commencement.
2. This Act shall be deemed to have come into operation on the day on which the Principal Act came into operation.
Definitions.
3. Section three of the Principal Act is amended by omitting from sub-section (1.) the words “Trading with the Enemy Act 1939” (wherever occurring) and inserting in their stead the words “Trading with the Enemy Act 1939-1940”.
Evidence relating to enemy subjects, &c.
4. Section eleven of the Principal Act is amended by omitting from sub-section (1.) the words “within the meaning of the Trading with the Enemy Act 1939”.