LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL.
No. S. 130.-The following Bills were read a first time at a Meeting of the Council held on the 1st June, 1911 :-
A BILL
Short title.
Amends Or- dinance No. 40 of 1909.
ENTITLED
An Ordinance to amend the Trade Marks Or-
dinance, 1909.
Be it enacted by the Governor of Hongkong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:-
1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Trade Marks Amendment Ordinance. 1911.
2. The Trade Marks Ordinance, 1909, is hereby amended as follows:-
.) In section 3 thereof by the deletion of the words The Seal of the Trade Marks Office Hongkong and the substitution therefor of the words "Registrar of Trade Marks Hongkong" and the use of such seal from and after the 10th day of December. 1909, is hereby validated” and
authorised."
(b.) In section 12 thereof by the repeal of sub-
section (2).
(e) By the insertion therein after section 55 thereof of the following heading and sub- section :-
Appeals to the Gov.
erner,
Appeals to the Governor,
55d.-- Where under this Ordinance an appeal is made to the Governor the Governor may refer such appeal to the Court in lieu of hearing and deciding it himself, but unless the Governor so refers the appeal it shall be heard and decided by him and his decision shall be final.
Objects and Reasons,
The inscription on the seal of the Registrar of Trade Marks does not tally with the inscription required by section 3 of the Principal Ordinance, the amendment validates the existing seal and authorises its future use. Section 12 (2) of the Principal Ordinance does not appear in the Imperial Act and as it deals with proce- dure it has been transferred to the rules relating to pro- cedure made under the Principal Ordinance.
C. G. ALABASTER,
A BILL
INTITLED
Attorney General,
Short title and con- struction.
Amends section 4 of Ordinance No. 22 of 1909.
An Ordinance to amend the Patents Amendment
Ordinance, 1909.
BE it enacted by the Governor of Hongkong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:-
1. This Ordinance may be cited as "The Patents Amendment Ordinance, 1911," and shall be read and construed as one with the Patents Ordinance, 1892, and the Patents Amendment Ordinance, 1909, hereinafter called the Amending Ordinance" and this Ordinance and the said Ordinances may hereafter be cited as
the Patents Ordinances, 1892 to 1911".
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2. Section 4 of the Amending Ordinance is hereby amended as follows:-
In sub-section (1) by the substitution of the words "Governor-in-Council" for the word
Governor ".
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