Num. 49.

1669

SUPPLEMENT
TO THE
NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE
OF
THURSDAY, JUNE 22, 1922.
Published by Authority.

WELLINGTON, TUESDAY, JUNE 27, 1922.

Regulations under the Patents, Designs, and Trade-marks Act 1921–22, relating to Patents.

JELLICOE, Governor-General.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House at Wellington, this 26th day of June, 1922.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL IN COUNCIL.

IN pursuance and exercise of the power and authority conferred upon him by the Patents, Designs, and Trade-marks Act, 1921–22 (hereinafter in these regulations referred to as “the said Act”), and of all other powers enabling him in that 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 make the following regulations relating to patents; and doth hereby declare that this Order shall come into force on the first day of July, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-two.

REGULATIONS.
INTERPRETATION.

1. In these regulations—
   “United Kingdom” includes the Isle of Man:
   “Foreign application” means an application by any person for protection of his invention in the United Kingdom, or in any foreign State to which section 91 of the Imperial Patents and Designs Act, 1907, is for the time being applicable, or in any country (whether a foreign State or a British possession) to which section 144 of the Patents, Designs, and Trade-marks Act, 1921–22, is for the time being applicable:
   “Convention application” means an application in New Zealand under section 144 of the said Act:
   “Agent” means an agent duly authorized to the satisfaction of the Registrar:
   “Office” means the Patent Office:
   “Journal” means the Patent Office Journal.

FEES.

2. (1.) The fees to be paid in pursuance of the said Act, in so far as it relates to patents, shall be the fees specified in the First Schedule to these regulations.
   (2.) All fees must be paid in advance in cash or be paid to the Public Account at a branch of the Bank of New Zealand and the bank receipt sent to the Patent Office, or else fees may be remitted by post-office order or postal note.
   (3.) Where documents are left at a Local Patent Office they should be accompanied by a bank receipt for the fee.
   (4.) The Registrar may give notice of any fee becoming due, but no liability shall be incurred by him if he fails to do so, or if for any reason the notice, if given, is incorrect in any particular or fails to reach the agent, the applicant, or the patentee. A certificate of the payment of any renewal fee shall be issued by the Registrar, and a receipt thereof be endorsed on the letters patent on the latter being produced for the purpose.

FORMS.

3. The forms herein referred to are the forms contained in the Second Schedule hereto, and such forms, or forms to the like effect, shall be used in all cases to which they are applicable, and shall be modified as directed by the Registrar to meet other cases.

DOCUMENTS.

4. All documents and copies of documents, except drawings, sent to or left at the Office or a Local Patent Office shall be written, typewritten, lithographed, or printed in the English language (unless otherwise directed) in legible characters with deep permanent ink upon strong white paper, and, except in the case of statutory declarations and affidavits, on one side only, of a size of approximately 13 inches by 8 inches, leaving a margin of at least 1½ inches on the left-hand part thereof. Duplicate documents shall at any time be left, if required by the Registrar.

At the top of the first page of a specification a space of about 2 inches should be left blank.

5. Any application, notice, or other document authorized or required to be left, made, or given at the Office, or to the Registrar, or to any other person under the said Act or these regulations, may be sent by a prepaid letter through the post, and if so sent shall be deemed to have been left, made, or