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THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, JUNE 30, 1932.
(e) The question whether an award shall be made, the amount thereof, and, if the Governor decides that the officer shall be allowed a share in the commercial proceeds, the amount of such share be determined by the Governor after investigation by the Committee.
5. In the event of a material change taking place in the circumstances which existed at the time when an award or allocation of commercial proceeds was made, the original decision may be modified by the Governor after further investigation by the Committee; provided that, in any such modification of the original decision, the amount of an award which has been paid shall not be reduced.
6. Where an invention is in all respects alien to the employment of the officer, he shall normally be granted the full rights in such invention.
7. There shall be constituted for the purposes of these Rules an Awards Committee which shall consist of a judicial or legal officer appointed by the Governor as Chairman and such other persons as the Governor may from time to time by notice in the Gazette appoint.
8. An officer shall be entitled at his own expense to appear personally before the Committee or to be represented in such manner as the Committee may approve.
9. All conclusions of the Committee shall be embodied in recommendations which shall be forwarded to the Governor.
10. The Committee may make Rules for regulating their proceedings, but no such Rules shall come into force until they shall have been approved by the Governor.
11. In fixing the amount of any award or of the share of
any commercial proceeds reserved to the Government under Rule 3 (d) or allowed to the officer under Rule 4 (c) (as the case may be), any reasonable expenses to which an officer may have been put in connexion with his inventions shall be taken into account.
APPOINTMENT OF AWARDS COMMITTEE UNDER RULE 7.
His Excellency the Officer Administering the Government has been pleased to appoint the following to be the Awards Committee constituted under Rule 7:
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Chairman---1. The officer performing the duties of Attorney General for the
time being.
2. The officer performing the duties of Registrar of Patents for
the time being.
3. The head of Department of the officer concerned.
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