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THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, SEPTEMBER 5, 1941.
No. 1066.
Hong Kong.
ORDINANCE No. 25 of 1914. (TRADING WITH THE ENEMY).
General licence and authority as to fees in respect of patents, designs and trade marks.
His Excellency the Governor, in pursuance of the powers conferred on him by paragraph (i) of the proviso to section 4 (3) of the Trading with the Enemy Ordinance, 1914, and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, hereby revokes the General Licence dated the 12th October, 1939, published as Government Notification No. 935 in the Gazette of 13th October, 1939, relating to the payment of fees in respect of patents, designs and trade marks, and hereby authorizes:-
(1) the payment on behalf of any person not being an enemy of any fees necessary for obtaining the grant of or for obtaining the renewal of Patents, or for obtaining the registration of Designs, or Trade Marks or the renewal of such registration, in enemy territory, and the payment to enemies of their charges and expenses in relation to the matters aforesaid;
(2) the payment on behalf of any enemy of any fees payable on application for or renewal of the grant of Patents. or on application for the registration of Designs or Trade Marks or the renewal of such registration in any country net being enemy or neutral territory and the payment on behalf of an enemy to persons not being enemies of their charges and expenses, in relation to the matters aforesaid, and the receipt of payments from an enemy in relation to the matters aforesaid:
Provided always that any payment on behalf of an enemy under this paragraph, unless it is made by a person who has an interest in or under the patent, design or trade mark in question, may be made by the person making the same only out of moneys:-
(a) remitted by or on behalf of such enemy, or
(b) accrued due to such enemy since the outbreak of
war, or
(c) owed by a patent agent (in his business as such) in Hong Kong to a patent agent in enemy territory,
and not by way of gift or by way of advancement or loan to or on account of such enemy.
Published by His Excellency's Command.
N. L. SMITH,
Colonial Secretary.
5th September, 1941.
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