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No. 218.-His Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint Mr. HUGH BLACKWELL LAYARD DOWBIGGIN, O.B.E., J.P., to be a Visiting Justice to the Po Leung Kok vice Mr. MARCUS THEODORE JOHNSON, J.P., resigned.
31st March, 1933.
No. 219.-His Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint the Secretary for Chinese Affairs to be the Protector of Labour for the purposes of the Factories and Workshops Ordinance, 1932.
31st March, 1933.
No. 220.-Pursuant to section 3 (1) of the Factories and Workshops Ordinance, 1932, His Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint FRANCIS MEADE to be the Inspector of Labour, and WILLIAM ELLIOTT to be Assistant Inspector of Labour.
31st March, 1933.
No 221. His Excellency the Governor has been pleased to approve of the promotion of Captain ERIC JOHN REINHOLD MITCHELL, O.B.E., to the rank of Major in the Hong Kong Volunteer Defence Corps, with effect from 21st March, 1933.
31st March, 1933.
NOTICES.
COLONIAL SECRETARY'S DEPARTMENT.
No. 222.-The following amendments to the Rules relative to the granting of Patents for inventions made by Civil Servants and published as Government Notification No. 423 of 1932, are published for general information.
31st March, 1933
W. T. SOUTHORN,
Colonial Secretary.
The figure"(3)" in paragraph 2 is deleted and the figure "3" substituted.
The following new clause is added after clause (d) of Rule 3:-
(e) A reservation to the Government of user of the invention free of royalty under paragraph (b) of this rule may include a like re- servation to His Majesty's Government in the United Kingdom, or the Government of any British Colony or Protectorate or any territory in respect of which His Majesty's Government in the United Kingdom exercises a mandate.
Rule 11 is rescinded and the following substituted:
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 (e) (as the case may be),
(a) any reasonable expenses to which an officer may have been put in
connexion with his inventions shall be taken into account,
(b) the reservation of a right of user free of royalty to His Majesty's Government in the United Kingdom or the Government of any other territory mentioned in Rule 3 (e) shall not be taken into account, but if and when such right shall be exercised by any such Governinent, a material change shall, for the purpose of Rule 5, be deemed to have taken place.