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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 2ND APRIL, 1892.
Inspection of Register.
Power to transfer Register and Record of
Patents from Colonial Secretary's
Offee.
Regulations, Fees.
Fees to be notified in the Government Gazette.
Repeal.
9. The "Register of Patents" shall at convenient times be open to the inspection of the public and certified copies under the hand of the Colonial Secretary or such other officer as may hereafter have the custody thereof of any entry in such register or record shall be given to any person requiring the same upon payment of the fees herein- after provided.
10. It shall be lawful for the Governor to direct by order to be published in the Gazette that the record or file of patents heretofore kept under the Ordinances hereby repealed and the Register of Patents herein provided for, be transferred from the Colonial Secretary's Office to such place and be placed under the custody of such officer as he may think fit.
11. (1.) The Governor in Council may make and, when made, may, from time to time, alter, amend, or revoke rules and regulations for the better carrying out of this Ordinance and a table of fees to be charged and paid thereunder.
(2.) Such rules and regulations and fees shall from time to time be notified in the Government Gazette and shall take effect from the date specified in such Notification.
(3.) Until altered, amended, or revoked the fees in schedule C hereto shall be the fees under, this Ordinance.
12. Ordinances No. 14 of 1862, No. 6 of 1890 and No. 8 of 1891 are hereby repealed but such repeal shall not affect any right acquired, privilege granted, or anything lawfully done or suffered under the said Ordinances or any or either of them.
Passed the Legislative Council of Hongkong, this 28th day of March, 1892.
A. M. THOMSON, Acting Clerk of Councils.
Assented to by His Excellency the Governor, the 1st day of April, 1892.
G. T. M. O'BRIEN, Colonial Secretary.
SCHEDULES.
(A.).
FORM OF PETITION.
The humble petition of A.B., (or as the case may be of C.D. as
agent for A.B.) &c.
That your petitioner (or as the case may be, that A.B. of whom your petitioner is the agent, assignee, exccutor or administrator) has obtained Her Majesty's Letters Patent dated the
day of
و
180 for (state the title of the invention. as granted) and that such Letters Patent are to continue in force
years from the
for
189
day of
That your petitioner believes that the said invention is not now now and has not hitherto been publicly used in this Colony.
That the following is the description of the said invention (here state the particulars shortly in accordance with the specification on which the Letters Patent in England were granted),
Your petitioner therefore prays for leave to file a
specification of the said
invention pursuant to the provisions of The Patent Ordinance, 1892.
And your petitioner will ever pray, &c.
A.B. of
(B.)
I (here insert name, condition, and place of residence) do solemnly and sincerely declare that I am (or if made by an agent, then that is) in possession absolutely (or if made in respect of a locally confined interest then within the Colony of Hongkong or according to fact) of an invention for (state the nature of the invention in terms of the English Patent) and which invention, I believe, will in all probability be of great public utility within Hongkong; and that the same is not publicly used within the said Colony and that to the best of my knowledge and belief the instrument in writing under my hand hereunto annexed parti- cularly describes and ascertains the nature of the said invention and in what mamer the same is to be performed.
Dated the
day of
189
(Signed)