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THE
NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
Published by Authority.

WELLINGTON, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 1871.

G. F. BOWEN, Governor.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington,
this twentieth day of September, 1871.

Present :

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by the sixth section of "The
Patents Act, 1870," it is enacted that it
shall be lawful for the Governor in Council from
time to time to make such Rules and Regulations,
not inconsistent with the provisions of the said
Act, as may appear to be necessary and expedient
for the purposes of the said Act :

Now therefore, His Excellency the Governor,
by and with the advice and consent of the Execu-
tive Council of the Colony of New Zealand, and
in exercise and pursuance of the above recited
power and authority, doth hereby make the follow-
ing Rules and Regulations for the purposes of the
said Act, in lieu of the Rules and Regulations
made on the tenth day of January, one thousand
eight hundred and seventy-one, and the thirteenth
day of March, one thousand eight hundred and
seventy-one, which are hereby repealed, except
as to all proceedings, acts, matters, and things
lawfully taken or commenced under the said
Regulations, or any of them :-

1. There shall be in the Colonial Secretary's
   Office at Wellington an office which shall be the
   office of the Patent Officer for the purposes of
   "The Patents Act, 1870."

2. The said Patent Office shall be the office or
   place for the purposes mentioned or referred to in
   the seventh, nineteenth, twentieth, twenty-third,
   thirtieth, and thirty-first sections of the said Act.

3. The said Patent Office shall be the place at
   which the indices mentioned in the twenty-ninth
   section of the said Act shall be open to inspection.

4. The said Patent Office shall be open to the
   public every day from ten o'clock to four o'clock,
   excepting on such days or times as the Colonial
   Secretary's Office shall be closed, and excepting
   on Saturdays, when the Office shall be closed
   at two o'clock; and during the time the said
   Patent Office shall be open as aforesaid, all
   specifications, drawings, models, disclaimers,
   memoranda of alterations, indices, registers, and
   other books and papers provided by the said Act
   to be open for inspection, shall be so open for
   inspection.

5. All specifications, drawings, and models
   deposited in the Colonial Secretary's Office, may
   be inspected on the days and at the times men-
   tioned in the last preceding Regulation.

6. There shall be, for the purposes of the
   said Act, and particularly for those specified in
   the seventh, nineteenth, twentieth, twenty-third,
   twenty-fourth, twenty-ninth, thirtieth, thirty-first,
   thirty-second, and thirty-fourth sections of the
   said Act, an officer who shall be called the Regis-
   trar of Patents, and who shall have the care and
   custody of all registers and documents in the
   Patent Office.

7. The fee of one shilling for every search and
   inspection mentioned in the Eighth Schedule to
   "The Patents Act, 1870," shall be paid for the
   inspection of each book, and for the inspection of
   the specifications, drawings, and models apper-
   taining to each Letters Patent, Letters of Regis-
   tration or Application.

8. Copies of plans and drawings are to be
   charged for specially, according to the time and
   labour required in each case.

9. The Patent Office, like the Offices of the
   Supreme Court and those of Registrars of Deeds,
   will not correspond, and therefore all business
   with it must be transacted personally by the
   applicants, or by their agents.

10. Every application for Letters Patent, or
    Letters of Registration, and every title of inven-
    tion and specification, must be limited to one
    invention only; and no Letters Patent or Letters
    of Registration will be granted where the specifi-
    cation or title embraces more than one invention.

11. The title of the invention must point out
    distinctly and specifically the nature and object of
    the invention.

12. Every specification, after describing the
    details of the invention with precision, must
    contain a distinct claim for the especial novelty
    thereof.