Permission from Her Majesty’s Commissioners; but such assistants will be forbidden to invite visitors to purchase the goods of their employers. (45–49.)

50. Articles once deposited in the building will not be permitted to be removed without written permission from Her Majesty’s Commissioners. (51–54.)

51. Her Majesty’s Commissioners will provide shafting, steam (not exceeding 30 lbs. per inch), and water, at high pressure, for machines in motion.

52. Persons who may wish to exhibit Machines, or trains of Machinery, in motion, will be allowed to have them worked, as far as practicable, under their own superintendence, and by their own men. (57–70.)

53. Intending exhibitors, in the United Kingdom, are requested to apply without delay, to the Secretary to Her Majesty’s Commissioners, for a Form of Demand for Space, stating at the same time in which of the four Sections they wish to exhibit.

54. The following is the form which has to be filled up:

55. Name and Christian name of applicant (or name of firm)

56. Nature of business carried on

57. Address { No. of street or square, &c.
    { Name of town

58. Nature of articles to be exhibited

59. Number of Class in which they are to be exhibited

Floor Space.
6. Probable Space that will be required for articles or case in which they will be shown.
Length … feet.
Breadth … feet.
Height … feet.

Hanging or Wall Space.
Height … feet.
Width … feet.

100. Foreign and Colonial exhibitors should apply to the Commission, or other Central Authority appointed by the Foreign or Colonial Government, as soon as notice has been given of its appointment.

101. Her Majesty’s Commissioners will consider that to be the Central Authority in each case which is stated to be so by the Government of its country, and will only communicate with Exhibitors through such Central Body.

102. No articles of foreign manufacture, to whomsoever they may belong, or wheresoever they may be, can be admitted for exhibition, ‘except with the sanction of the Central Authority of the country of which they are the produce.’ Her Majesty’s Commissioners will communicate to such Central Authority the amount of space which can be allowed to the productions of the country for which it acts, and will also state the further conditions and limitations which may from time to time be decided on with respect to the admission of articles. All articles forwarded by such Central Authority will be admitted, provided they do not require a greater aggregate amount of space than that assigned to the country from which they come; and, provided also, that they do not violate the general conditions and limitations. It will rest with the Central Authority in each country to decide upon the merits of the several articles presented for exhibition, and to take care that those which are sent are such as fairly represent the industry of their fellow countrymen.

103. Separate space will be allotted to each Foreign Country, within which the Commissioners for that country will be at liberty to arrange the productions entrusted to them in such manner as they think best, subject to the condition that all Machinery shall be exhibited in the portion of the building specially devoted to that purpose, and all Pictures in the fine Art Galleries, and to the observance of any general rules that may be laid down by Her Majesty’s Commissioners for public convenience.

104. By arrangements made with Her Majesty’s Government, all Foreign or Colonial Goods intended for exhibition, sent and addressed in accordance with Regulations hereafter to be issued, will be admitted into the country, and allowed to be transmitted to the Exhibition Building without being previously opened, and without payment of any duty. But all Goods which shall not be re-exported at the termination of the Exhibition will be charged with the proper duties, under the ordinary Customs’ Regulations. (105–108.)

105. It is not the intention of Her Majesty’s Commissioners to take any steps in reference to the protection of Inventions or Designs, by Patent or Registration, the law on these points having been materially simplified since 1851.