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Objects and Reasons.
I. The Registration of United Kingdom Patents Ordi- nances of the Colony were introduced on the instructions of the Secretary of State in order to carry out the recommend. ations of the British Empire Patent Conference, 1922, and the Imperial Economic Conference, 1923.
2. They have been adapted with slight alterations from a draft model Ordinance prepared by the Board of Trade. Defects in the model have been pointed out by the Secretary of State from time to time and the principal Ordinance has been amended accordingly, the latest amendment having been effected by Ordinance No. 18 of 1932, which was passed to comply with the Secretary of State's "Circular (2)" despatch of the 27th February, 1932.
3. A more recent Colonial Office circular despatch dated the 5th September, 1932, points out a further defect which has been discovered in the model, and which necessitates the substitution of the words "date of the patent" for the words "date of the issue of the patent" in two places in sub-section (2) of section 8 of Ordinance No. 13 of 1925, as enacted by section 2 of Ordinance No. 18 of 1932.
4. As the principal Ordinance of 1925 is a short Ordi- nance which has been amended by Ordinances No. 10 of 1928, No 38 of 1931, and No. 18 of 1932, and as the Rules made under it in 1926 were amended twice in 1931, it has been con- sidered desirable to repeal them all and to re-enact them, with the alteration directed by the Colonial Office despatch of the 5th September, 1932, in this new Ordinance.
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November, 1932.
C. G. ALABASTER,
Attorney Generał.
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