THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT GAZEITE, JUNE 10, 1932.
HONG KONG.
No. 18 of 1932.
I assent.
W. T. SOUTHORN,
L.S.
Officer Administering the Government.
10th June, 1932.
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An Ordinance to amend the law relating to the Registration
of United Kingdom Patents.
[10th June, 1932.]
Be it enacted by the Governor of Hong Kong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:
1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Registration of Short title. United Kingdom Patents Amendment Ordinance, 1932.
Ordinance
2. The Registration of the United Kingdom Patents Substitu- Ordinance, 1925, as amended by the Registration of United tion for Kingdom Patents Amendment Ordinance, 1928, and by the Registration of United Kingdom Patents Amendment Ordin- ance, 1931, is amended by the repeal of section 8 and by the substitution of the following section :
No. 13 of 1925, s. 8. No. 10 of
Ordinance
1928. Ordinance No. 38 of 1931.
declare
8.-(1) The Supreme Court shall have power, upon the Power to application of any person who alleges that his interests have exclusive been prejudicially affected by the issue of a certificate of privileges
not acquired. registration, to declare, on any of the grounds upon which the United Kingdom Patent might be revoked under the law for the time being in force in the United Kingdom, that the exclusive privileges and rights conferred by such certificate of registration have not been acquired.
(2) Such grounds shall be deemed to include the manu- facture, use or sale of the invention in Hong Kong prior to the date of the issue of the patent in the United Kingdom, but not to include the manufacture, use or sale of the invention in Hong Kong by some person or persons after the date of the issue of the patent in the United Kingdom and prior to the date of the issue of the certificate of registration under section 5.
3. The Registration of the United Kingdom Patents Repeal of Amendment Ordinance, 1931 is repealed.
Passed the Legislative Council of Hong Kong, this 9th day of June, 1932.
Ordinance No. 38 of 1931.
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R. A. C. NORTH,
Deputy Clerk of Councils.