TRADE MARKS.

No. 42 of 1958.

An Act to amend the Trade Marks Act 1955.

[Assented to 23rd September, 1958.]

BE it enacted by the Queen’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 Trade Marks Act 1958.

(2.)  The Trade Marks Act 1955 is in this Act referred to as the Principal Act.

(3.)  The Principal Act, as amended by this Act, may be cited as the Trade Marks Act 1955–1958.

Commencement.

2.  This Act shall come into operation on the day on which it receives the Royal Assent.

Registrar and other officers.

3.  Section ten of the Principal Act is amended by inserting after sub-section (3.) the following sub-section:—

“(3a.) Until the Governor-General otherwise determines, the Deputy Commissioner of Patents shall be the Deputy Registrar of Trade Marks.”.

Unauthorized persons not to act in trade mark matters.

4.  Section one hundred and thirty-five of the Principal Act is amended by adding at the end of paragraph (b) of sub-section (1.) the word “or”.