JULY 4.

Telephone Bureau.--Payment for Message.

ISLINGTON, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this first day
of July, 1912.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by Order in Council dated the first day of
November, one thousand nine hundred and eleven,
and published in the New Zealand Gazette of the second
day of November, one thousand nine hundred and eleven,
regulations were made, under the authority of the Post
and Telegraph Act, 1908 (hereinafter termed "the said
Act"), prescribing, inter alia, the charges to be levied for
the use of a Government telephone at a telephone bureau
in New Zealand: And whereas it is expedient to add to
such regulations in the manner hereinafter set forth:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor of the
Dominion of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of
the power and authority conferred upon him by the said
Act, and of all other powers and authorities in that behalf
enabling him, and acting by and with the advice and
consent of the Executive Council of the said Dominion,
doth hereby make the regulation set forth in the Schedule
hereto; and doth declare that the said additional regulation
shall be read as part of the regulations under the
heading "Telephone Bureaux" in the Schedule to the
above-mentioned Order in Council, and shall have effect
on and after the date of publication of this Order in
Council in the New Zealand Gazette.

SCHEDULE.

3A. If payment of the charge for a bureau communication
is not made upon demand, the Minister of Telegraphs may
refuse an exchange subscriber any further bureau communication
until the outstanding charge has been paid.

J. F. ANDREWS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Regulations as to Patent Agents under the Patents,
Designs, and Trade-marks Act, 1911.

ISLINGTON, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this first day
of July, 1912.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by section one hundred and twenty-three
of the Patents, Designs, and Trade-marks Act,
1911 (hereinafter referred to as "the said Act"), it is
enacted that the Governor in Council may from time to
time, subject to the provisions of the said Act, make such
regulations as he thinks expedient, inter alia, for regulating
the keeping of the Register of Patent Agents under
the said Act, the registration of patent agents, the terms
and conditions of such registration, and the cases and
manner in which such registration may be cancelled: And
whereas it is expedient to make such regulations accordingly:

Now, therefore, in pursuance and exercise of the power
and authority conferred upon him by the said section
and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, His
Excellency the Governor of the Dominion of New Zealand,
acting by and with the advice and consent of the
Executive Council of the said Dominion, doth hereby make
the following regulations for the purposes aforesaid, and
doth hereby declare that the said regulations shall come
into force on the first day of July, one thousand nine hundred
and twelve.

REGULATIONS.

1. A REGISTER of Patent Agents shall be kept by the
   Registrar subject to the provisions of the said Act and of
   these regulations.

2. The register shall contain in one list the names of
   all patent agents who are registered under the said Act
   and these regulations.

Such list shall be made out according to the surnames
of the registered persons, and shall contain the full name

of each registered person, with his address and the date
of registration.

3. The Registrar shall publish in the Patent Office
   Journal in the month of March in each year a list of all
   patent agents whose names are on the register. The list
   so published shall be admissible as evidence of all matters
   stated therein in pursuance of these regulations, and the
   absence of the name of any person from the register shall
   be evidence, until the contrary is made to appear, that
   such person is not registered as a patent agent.

4. No person shall be registered as a patent agent under
   these regulations unless and until he has passed an examination
   as hereinafter prescribed.

5. Examinations shall be conducted by the Registrar,
   assisted by two other persons (one of whom may be a
   patent agent) whom the Minister of Justice may appoint
   for the purpose for a term not exceeding two years.

6. Every person who wishes to be examined with a view
   to registration as a patent agent shall notify his desire
   to the Registrar, and shall forward to him two or more
   testimonials as to character. If the Registrar is satisfied
   with such testimonials he shall notify the candidate accordingly,
   and on payment by him of a fee of £3 3s.
   shall arrange for his examination, and notify him of the
   time and place thereof.

7. The examination shall be conducted by means of
   written papers upon the following subjects, namely:

(a.) The Patents, Designs, and Trade-marks Act (New
Zealand) and the regulations for the time being
in force thereunder;

(b.) The preparation of a provisional and a complete
specification to be attached to an application for
any kind of invention;

(c.) Patents, designs, and trade-marks case law;

(d.) The patent law of England, the Commonwealth of
Australia, and other countries;

(e.) Any other subjects that may from time to time be
prescribed by Order in Council: Provided that
not less than six months’ notice shall be given of
any subject prescribed in pursuance of this paragraph.

8. As soon as possible after the examination the
   examiners shall consider the results thereof, and a
   majority of the examiners shall determine whether the
   candidate has passed or failed. Upon such determination
   the Registrar shall notify the candidate thereof. If the
   candidate has passed, the Registrar shall, on payment of
   a fee of £1 1s., place his name on the Register of Patent
   Agents, and issue to him a certificate of registration.

9. Every registered patent agent shall, on the 1st day
   of January in each year, or as soon thereafter as possible,
   pay to the Registrar a renewal fee of £1 1s.

10. The Registrar shall from time to time insert in the
    register any alteration which may come to his knowledge
    in the name or address of any person registered.

11. The Registrar shall from time to time erase from
    the register the name of any registered person who is dead.

12. The Registrar may erase from the register the name
    of any registered person who has ceased to practise as a
    patent agent, but not (save as hereinafter provided)
    without the consent of that person. For the purposes of
    this regulation the Registrar may send by post to a registered
    person, to his registered address, a notice inquiring
    whether or not he has ceased to practise or has changed
    his residence; and if the Registrar does not, within three
    months after sending the notice, receive an answer thereto
    from the said person, he may, within fourteen days after
    the expiration of the three months, send him by post to
    his registered address another notice referring to the first
    notice, and stating that no answer has been received by the
    Registrar; and if the Registrar either before the second
    notice is sent receives the first notice back from the dead-letter
    office, or receives the second notice back from that
    office, or does not within three months after sending the
    second notice receive any answer thereto from the said
    person, that person shall, for the purpose of this regulation,
    be deemed to have ceased to practise, and his name
    may be erased accordingly.

13. If any registered person fails within one month
    from the day on which his annual registration fee becomes
    payable to pay such fee, the Registrar may send to such
    registered person, to his registered address, a notice requiring
    him, on or before a day to be named in the notice,
    to pay his annual registration fee; and if such registered
    patent agent fails within one month from the day named
    in such notice to pay the registration fee so due from him,
    the Registrar may erase his name from the register:
    Provided that the name of a person erased from the
    register under this regulation may be restored to the
    register on payment by such person of the fee or fees due
    from him, together with such further sum of money, not
    exceeding in amount the annual registration fee, as the
    Registrar may in each particular case direct.