Number 67. 1205

SUPPLEMENT
TO THE
NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE
OF
THURSDAY, AUGUST 18, 1892.
Published by Authority.

WELLINGTON, THURSDAY, AUGUST 18, 1892.

Arrangements between the Colonies of Victoria and New Zealand relating to Patents and Trade-marks.

Patent Office,
Wellington, 18th August, 1892.

THE two following Orders in Council are published for general information.

C. J. A. HASELDEN,
Registrar of Patents, Designs, and Trade-marks.

PROVISIONS OF SECTION 106 OF “THE PATENTS, DESIGNS, AND TRADE-MARKS ACT, 1889,” TO APPLY TO THE COLONY OF VICTORIA.

GLASGOW, Governor.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this fifth day of July, 1892.

Present:

His Excellency the Governor in Council.

Whereas by the one hundred and seventh section of “The Patents, Designs, and Trade-marks Act, 1889” (hereinafter called “the said Act”), it is, among other things, enacted that where it is made to appear to the Governor in Council that the Legislature of any British possession, other than New Zealand, has made satisfactory provision for the protection of inventions, designs, and trade-marks, or any of them, patented or registered in New Zealand, the Governor may from time to time, by Order in Council, apply all or any of the provisions of the last-preceding section of the said Act relating to the protection of inventions, designs, and trade-marks protected or registered in England, with such variations or additions, if any, as to the Governor in Council may seem fit, to inventions, designs, and trade-marks, or any of them, patented or registered in such British possession; and by the said first-mentioned section it is also provided that an Order in Council made under the said section shall, from a date to be mentioned for the purpose in the order, take effect as if its provisions had been contained in the said Act; but the Governor in Council may revoke any such Order in Council:

And whereas it has been made to appear to the Governor in Council that the Legislature of the Colony of Victoria has, under and by virtue of the provisions of “The Patents Act, 1890,” made satisfactory provision for the protection of inventions for which protection has been applied for in New Zealand, and also has, under and by virtue of the provisions of “The Trade-marks Act, 1890,” made like provision for the protection of trade-marks applied for or entitled to protection in New Zealand:

And whereas it is expedient that provision should be made, under the provisions of the hereinbefore-recited section of the said Act, for the application of the provisions of the one hundred and sixth section of such Act to inventions and trade-marks patented or registered in the Colony of Victoria, subject, however, as hereinafter mentioned:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the power and authority vested in him by the one hundred and seventh section of the said Act, and by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said colony, doth hereby order and declare that all the provisions of the one hundred and sixth section of “The Patents, Designs, and Trade-marks Act, 1889,” relating to the protection of inventions and trade-marks patented or registered in England shall apply to inventions patented and trade-marks registered in the Colony of Victoria, subject, however, to this variation: that application shall be made in New Zealand in the case of a patent within six months, and in the case of a trade-mark within four months, from the date of application for protection in the Colony of Victoria.

And in further pursuance and exercise of the power and authority aforesaid, and with the like advice and consent at