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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 106

Amending Regulations relating to Patents, Designs, and Trade-marks.

JELLICOE, Governor-General.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House at Wellington, this 22nd day of December, 1921.

Present:

His Excellency the Governor-General in Council.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers conferred on him by the Patents, Designs, and Trade-marks Act, 1911, and all other powers enabling him in this behalf, His Excellency the Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said Dominion, doth hereby amend the regulations relating respectively to patents and to designs made under the said Act on the fifth day of June, one thousand nine hundred and twelve, and gazetted on the eighth day of June, one thousand nine hundred and twelve, and also the regulations relating to trade-marks made under the said Act on the twenty-first day of May, one thousand nine hundred and twelve, and gazetted on the eighth day of June, one thousand nine hundred and twelve (hereinafter collectively referred to as “the said regulations”), in the manner set forth in the Schedule hereto; and doth hereby declare that this Order in Council shall come into force on the first day of January, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-two.

SCHEDULE.

THE following fees are hereby substituted for those payable under the said regulations in respect of the matters referred to :—

PATENTS.

On application for patent, with provisional specification .. .. .. .. £ s. d.
1 0 0
On application for patent, with complete specification .. .. .. .. 2 0 0
On filing complete specification subsequently .. .. .. .. 2 0 0
On request for sealing letters patent or any duplicate thereof .. .. .. .. 1 0 0

DESIGNS.

On application to register one design to be applied to a single article in a class .. .. .. .. 0 10 0
On application to register one design to be applied to a set of articles in a class .. .. .. .. 1 0 0

On application to register at the same time one design in two or more classes—
For the first of such classes .. .. .. .. £ s. d.
0 10 0
For each other class .. .. .. .. 0 5 0

On application to register at the same time two or more designs in one or more classes—
For the first design .. .. .. .. 0 10 0
For each subsequent design .. .. .. .. 0 5 0

On application for extension of period of copyright under section 52 (3) of the Act .. .. .. .. 1 0 0

TRADE-MARKS.

On application, not otherwise charged, to register a trade-mark for one or more articles included in one class .. .. .. .. 0 15 0

On application, not otherwise charged, to register series of trade-marks for one or more articles included in one class .. .. .. .. 0 15 0

For registration of a trade-mark for one or more articles included in one class .. .. .. .. 1 10 0

For registration of a series of marks for one or more articles included in one class—
For the first mark .. .. .. .. 1 10 0
For every other mark of the series .. .. .. .. 0 10 0

For renewal of registration of a mark at expiration of last registration .. .. .. .. 2 0 0

For renewal of registration of a series of marks at the expiration of last registration—
For the first mark of the series .. .. .. .. 2 0 0
For every other mark of the series .. .. .. .. 0 10 0

The fees herein prescribed shall be payable in respect of applications, filings, or registrations made or effected after the 1st day of January, 1922, except that on request for sealing letters patent for which a complete specification has been lodged prior to such date the fee shall be £2 as fixed in the said regulations, and not £1.

Where payment is made in accordance with the regulations in force prior to the coming into operation of this Order in Council, the balance of the amount to make up the fee prescribed (where such fee has been increased under this Order in Council) may be paid by the 1st day of May, 1922; and if such balance is not paid by that date, the former payment shall be deemed not to have been made, and no action shall be taken in respect of the matter referred to unless otherwise provided for by the said Act and the regulations thereunder.

F. D. THOMSON,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Amendments and Additions to the Regulations under the Public Service Act, 1912.

IN pursuance and exercise of the authority conferred on him by the Public Service Act, 1912 (hereinafter called “the said Act”), the Commissioner, with the approval of the Governor-General in Council, doth hereby, in respect of the regulations made under the said Act on the thirty-first day of March, one thousand nine hundred and thirteen, and published in the New Zealand Gazette of the first day of April, one thousand nine hundred and thirteen, and the amendments thereof made from time to time under the provisions of the said Act, make the amendments shown in the Schedule hereto.

Such amendments shall have effect from and after the first day of December, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-one.

SCHEDULE.

REGULATION 60 is hereby revoked.

Regulation 71 is hereby revoked, and the following regulation substituted therefor :—

71. The Public Service Commissioner may appoint any officer of the Public Service to act as Returning Officer for the election of the two members to act on the Board of Appeal in all appeals affecting officers of the Public Service other than the Post and Telegraph Department.

Regulation 173 is hereby amended by deleting the following paragraphs :—

“If a candidate is gazetted as having passed the Entrance Examination, the amount of the entrance fee will be refunded to him on his accepting appointment in a Department of the Public Service.

“In no case, however, will a late fee be refunded.”

As witness my hand this 20th day of December, 1921.

W. R. MORRIS,
Public Service Commissioner.

In pursuance of the provisions of the Public Service Act, 1912, His Excellency the Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said Dominion, approves the foregoing regulation.

JELLICOE, Governor-General.

Approved in Council this 22nd day of December, 1921.

F. D. THOMSON,
Clerk of the Executive Council.