JAN. 3.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 17

SECOND SCHEDULE.
MAKAKA VILLAGE SETTLEMENT.
Small-Farm Allotments on Deferred Payments.

PUNEHU VILLAGE SETTLEMENT.
Small-Farm Allotments on Deferred Payments.

FORSTER GORING,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Regulations under “The Patents Act, 1883.”

WM. F. DRUMMOND JERVOIS,
Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this second day of January, 1884.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by the fifth section of “The Patents Act, 1883,” it is, amongst other things, enacted that the Governor in Council from time to time may make such regulations as may appear to be necessary and expedient for the purposes of the said Act:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of such colony, and in pursuance and exercise of the hereinbefore in part recited power and authority, doth hereby make the following regulations for the purposes of the said Act:—

1. Every copy of any specification shall be legibly printed or written, and, if written, upon one side only of each page: foolscap size is preferred.

2. The following directions are to be observed in making drawings and copies of drawings:—

(a.) Paper or tracing-cloth may be used; which should be as white, clean, and smooth as possible, and should, if possible, be rolled up and not folded. Sheets of demy size are preferred.

(b.) The copies of drawings, unless lithographed, should be made with indian ink freshly rubbed down, quite black, free from grit and glaze.

Pale ink must on no account be used.

No colour but black is allowed.

All lines, writing, figures, and letters must be clearly and firmly drawn.

All shading must be by black lines as wide apart as possible.

3. Every application for letters of registration shall be accompanied by—

(a.) A certified copy of the original letters patent, or like protection, and specification, and of the drawings (if any);

(b.) A duplicate copy of such specification and drawings;

(c.) A certificate under the seal of any Patent Office, or other department issuing any patent or like protection, to which such letters of registration are to relate, and signed by any Commissioner or other officer of such office or department, to the effect that such patent is still in force according to the records of such office or department; or

A statutory declaration, by a person conversant with the laws of the country or colony in which the said letters patent or like protection have been granted, that he has searched the Registry of Patents in that country or colony in which the patent has issued; that such letters patent, or like protection, are, according to the laws of that country or colony, still in force; and that the applicant is the holder or assignee of such letters patent or like protection.

Such declaration shall be made by some person other than the person claiming letters of registration;

(d.) And a statutory declaration by the applicant that he is the bonâ fide holder, or assignee and proprietor, of such letters patent or like protection.

4. When the applicant is the assignee, then a certified copy of the deed of assignment must also accompany the application.

5. Documents in any language other than English, deposited in the Patent Office, must be accompanied by translations into English, certified to as correct by some person approved of by the Patent Officer, or by a verified statutory declaration.

6. In any case where any deed or instrument proposed to be lodged or deposited in the Patent Office, under the said Act or these regulations, fails to comply with any of the provisions thereof as to the authentication of any such deed or instrument, or in respect of any clerical error in the framing or copying thereof, the Patent Officer may, in his discretion, allow the same to be so lodged or deposited upon such terms or conditions as he shall prescribe, the same not being inconsistent with the provisions of the said Act.

7. Applications for copies of documents or drawings must be accompanied by a deposit of such sum as the Patent Officer shall consider sufficient to cover the cost of copying. Copies of drawings are to be charged for according to the time occupied in each case.

8. In the interpretation of these regulations the following terms and expressions shall have the meanings hereby assigned to them:—

(a.) A “statutory declaration” means a declaration made in Great Britain or Ireland, or any British colony, or New Zealand, before a Justice of the Peace, notary public, or other person having authority to take or receive a declaration under any law for the time being in force; and, if made in any foreign country, means a like declaration made before a British Consul or Vice-Consul, or other person having authority to take or receive such a declaration under any Act of the Imperial Parliament for the time being in force authorizing the taking or receiving thereof:

(b.) A “certified copy” means a copy of any deed or instrument certified by a statutory declaration as aforesaid, or by a notary public, to be a true and correct copy, and shall include any such copy under the seal of any Patent Office or other department issuing any such patent, and certified under the hand of any Commissioner or other officer of such office or department to be a true copy thereof.

FORSTER GORING,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Rules under “The Bankruptcy Act, 1883.”

WM. F. DRUMMOND JERVOIS,
Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this second day of January, 1884.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by the twenty-eighth section of “The Bankruptcy Act, 1883” (hereinafter termed “the said Act”), it is enacted that the Governor in Council, with the concurrence of at least two of the Judges of the superior Court, may from time to time, subject to the provisions of the said Act, frame rules regulating—

(a.) The practice of the Court, whether as to any original or appellate jurisdiction under the said Act, the summoning of juries and witnesses, and the several forms of proceedings to be used in the Court in all matters under the said Act;

(b.) The proceedings at meetings of creditors, the notice to be given thereof, and the places where the same shall be held, the mode of voting thereat, and the manner in which proxies may be appointed and vote at such meetings;

(c.) The forms of petitions, summonses, and notices to be filed, issued, or given under the said Act, the mode in which the same shall be served, and what shall be deemed sufficient service thereof;

(d.) The transference of proceedings from one Court to another, or from an abolished Court to another;

(e.) The mode of making out and amending statements of assets, debts, and liabilities of bankrupts;

(f.) The mode of proving and amending of proofs of debt, and the mode of valuing debts provable under the said Act and of securities held by creditors, the giving or withholding interest or discount on or in respect of debts or dividends;

(g.) And generally any other matter or thing, whether similar or not to those above enumerated, in respect to which it may be expedient to make rules for carrying into effect the objects of the said Act: