New Zealand Gazette – 1920 – No. 57

Page 1910

✨ Treaty of Peace Order, 1920



1910
THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 57

  1. Every Court in New Zealand shall take judicial notice of the terms of the Treaty.

  2. In any proceedings, whether civil or criminal, taken in any Court by virtue of this Part of this Order the Court may admit such evidence as it thinks fit, whether legally admissible in other proceedings or not.

  3. It shall be lawful for the Clearing Office to deduct from any sum payable by that office to a creditor such commission, not exceeding two and a half per centum of the amount payable, as may be fixed by the Public Trustee.

  4. All moneys payable by the Clearing Office to a creditor shall be payable out of any funds received by the Clearing Office under this Part of this Order, or out of any of the funds referred to in Part II of this Order.

Industrial Property.

  1. There shall be imposed on rights of industrial, literary, or artistic property (with the exception of trade-marks) which have been acquired before or during the late war with Germany, or which may be acquired hereafter by German nationals, such limitations, conditions, or restrictions as the Registrar of Patents, Designs, and Trade-marks may prescribe for the purpose, in the manner, in the circumstances, and subject to the limitations contained in Article 306 of the Treaty; and any transfer in whole or in part or other dealing with any rights so acquired as aforesaid effected since the first day of August, nineteen hundred and fourteen, shall, if and so far as it is inconsistent with any limitations, conditions, or restrictions so imposed, be void and of no effect.

  2. The duly qualified tribunal for the purpose of Article 310 of the Treaty shall be the Registrar of Patents, Designs, and Trade-marks.

  3. The rights conferred on the subjects of the Allied and Associated Powers in respect of patents, designs, and trade-marks by Article 308 of the Treaty are hereby extended to all British subjects and British companies resident or carrying on business during the late war with Germany in any country to which section one hundred and twenty-nine of the Patents, Designs, and Trade-marks Act, 1911, applies.

  4. So far as may be necessary for the purpose of Article 307 of the Treaty the Patents, Designs, and Trade-marks Amendment Act, 1914, shall, in relation to German nationals, continue and be deemed to have continued in force as if references therein to subjects of a State at war with His Majesty included references to German nationals.

PART II.

  1. In this Part of this Order—

“War Regulations” means the regulations made under the War Regulations Act, 1914, or under any Act amending or extending the provisions thereof:

“Enemy” means and includes any person who during the late war with Germany was a subject of the State of Germany or of any other State with which His Majesty was then at war, and who during that war was resident within the territories of any such State, and also includes any company or body corporate incorporated in any such State.

  1. All moneys now in the hands or hereafter coming into the hands of the Public Trustee as the proceeds of the liquidation of any business by him in his capacity as the Controller of that business


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🏛️ Treaty of Peace Order, 1920 (continued from previous page)

🏛️ Governance & Central Administration
1 June 1920
Treaty of Peace, Germany, Order in Council, Versailles, Clearing Office, Cook Islands, Western Samoa, Judicial Notice, Evidence, Industrial Property, Patents, Designs, Trade-marks