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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 79

These Acts, having been presented and found in due and good form, are entrusted to the Secretary of State for the United States of America, to be lodged in the archives of the Government of the United States.

In proof of which has been drawn up the present report, of which a copy, duly certified, will be sent by the usual diplomatic channels to the Governments constituting the International Union for the Protection of Industrial Property.

Executed at Washington, the 1st April, 1913.

For Spain
France
Great Britain
Portugal
Switzerland
Tunis
} [Names of signators.]

III.

ARRANGEMENT OF MADRID OF 14TH APRIL, 1891, CONCERNING THE INTERNATIONAL REGISTRATION OF MARKS OF TRADE OR COMMERCE, REVISED AT BRUSSELS, THE 14TH DECEMBER, 1900, AND AT WASHINGTON, THE 2ND JUNE, 1911.

Official Report (1st April, 1913).

In compliance with article 12 of the arrangement for the international registration of marks of trade or commerce, signed at Washington, the 2nd June, 1911, the undersigned, being duly authorized, have united to proceed with the deposit of the Acts of ratification of their respective Governments on the arrangement just cited.

These Acts, having been presented and found in due and good form, are entrusted to the Secretary of State for the United States of America, to be lodged in the archives of the Government of the United States.

In proof of which has been drawn up the present report, of which a copy, duly certified, will be sent by the usual diplomatic channels to the Governments constituting the International Union for the Protection of Industrial Property.

Executed at Washington, the 1st April, 1913.

For Austria and Hungary
Spain
France
Italy
Mexico
Netherlands
Portugal
Switzerland
Tunis
} [Names of signators.]

At the time of the deposit of the Acts of ratification of their respective countries the representatives of Austria, Hungary, and Great Britain have made, in the name of their Governments, declarations as follows :—

1. The Convention of the Union of Paris and the Arrangement of Madrid concerning the international registration of marks of trade or commerce, revised at Washington, will come into force, ipso jure, in Bosnia and Herzegovina from the time when they shall come into force in Austria and Hungary.

2. The ratification by His Britannic Majesty of the Convention of the Union of Paris and of the Arrangement of Madrid concerning the repression of false indications of origin on goods, revised at Washington, refers only to the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. The notifications concerning the dominions, colonies, possessions, or protectorates of Great Britain to the Acts concerned will be addressed, if they take place, to the Government of the Swiss Confederation, in conformity with the provisions of article 16 (2) of the Convention and article 5 of the arrangement above mentioned.

Editor’s Note.—The Governments of the countries belonging to the Convention of the Union, or to one or other of the Arrangements of Madrid, which have not yet ratified these Acts, as revised by the Conference at Washington, are the following, namely,—

For the Convention of the Union—Belgium, Brazil, Cuba, Denmark, Servia, Sweden.

For the arrangement concerning indications of origin—Brazil and Cuba.

For the arrangement concerning international registration of marks—Belgium, Brazil, and Cuba.

Until these Acts revised at Washington shall be executory in these countries these latter will have to apply the text of 1883–1900.

ACCESSION OF THE BRITISH POSSESSIONS OF NEW ZEALAND, CEYLON, TRINIDAD, AND TOBAGO TO CERTAIN OF THE ACTS ADOPTED BY THE CONFERENCE OF WASHINGTON.

Following on a communication received from the British legation at Berne, the Swiss Federal Council has notified, under date the 20th May, the Governments of the countries which are members of the Union for the Protection of Industrial Property,—

1. The accessions of the following British possessions to the Convention of the Union of Paris of the 20th March, 1883, for the Protection of Industrial Property, revised at Brussels, the 14th December, 1900, and at Washington, the 2nd June, 1911, namely,—

Dominion of New Zealand.
Colony of Ceylon.
Colony of Trinidad and Tobago.

These three possessions have already previously acceded to the Convention of Industrial Property of Paris, revised at Brussels.

2. The accession of the Dominion of New Zealand to the Arrangement of Madrid of the 14th April, 1891, concerning the repression of false indications of origin on goods, revised at Washington, the 2nd June, 1911.

New Zealand has not up till now subscribed to the restricted Union as constituted by the aforesaid arrangement.

In the terms of article 16 of the revised Convention of Paris the Acts above mentioned will come into force in the respective British possessions one month after the sending of the notification from the Federal Council to the Governments of the countries of the Union, or the 20th June, 1913.