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(xxvi) There shall be imposed on rights of industrial, literary or artistic property (with the exception of trade marks) acquired before or during the war, or which may be acquired hereafter, by or on behalf of Austrian nationals, such limitations, conditions or restrictions as the Board of Trade may prescribe for the purpose, in the manner, in the circumstances, and subject to the limi- tations, contained in Article 258 of the Treaty, and any transfer in whole or in part or other dealing with any rights so acquired as aforesaid effected since the twenty-eighth day of July, nineteen hundred and fourteen, shall if and so far as it is inconsistent with any limitations, conditions or restrictions so imposed be void and of no effect.
(xxvii) So far as may be necessary for the purpose of Article 259 of the Treaty, the Patents, Designs and Trade Marks (Temporary Rules) Act, 1914 (except. paragraph (b) of Section 1 of the Patents, Designs and Trade Marks (Tem- porary Rules) (Amendment) Act, 1914), shall in relation to Austrian nationals continue in force, and shall be deemed as from the date when the Treaty came into force to have continued in force, as if references therein to subjects of a State at war with His Majesty included references to Austrian nationals. (xxviii) The duly qualified tribunal for the purposes of Article 262 of the Treaty
shall be the Comptroller-General of Patents, Designs and Trade Marks.
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2. For the purposes of the foregoing provisions of this Order- The expression "enemy debt" has the meaning assigned to it by paragraph of the Annex to Section III of Part X of the Treaty, and includes any sum which under the
debt. Treaty is to be treated or dealt with in like manner as an enemy
The expression "nationals" in relation to any State includes the Sovereign or former Sovereign and the subjects or citizens of that State and any company or corpora- tion incorporated therein according to the law of that State and in the case of a Protecto- rate the natives thereof.
The expression "nationals of the former Austrian Empire" does not include persons who, within six months of the coming into force of the Treaty show to the satisfaction of the Administrator that they have acquired ipso facto in accordance with its provisions nationality of an Allied or Associated Power, including those, who ander Articles 72 or 76 of the Treaty obtained such nationality wit the consent of the competent authorities, or who under Articles 74 or 77 thereof acquired such nationality by virtue of previous rights of citizenship.
The Interpretation Act, 1889, applies for the interpretation of this Order in like manner as it applies for the interpretation of an Act of Parliament, and as if this Order were an Act of Parliament.
3. This Order shall apply to the whole of His Majesty's Dominions and Protectorates, except India and Egypt and the self-governing Dominions, that is to say, the Dominion of Canada, the Commonwealth of Australia (which for this purpose shall be deemed to include Papua and Norfolk Island), the Union of South Africa, the Dominion of New Zealand and Newfoundland, but in its application to the parts of Ilis Majesty's Dominions outside the United Kingdom and to British Protectorates shall be subject to such modifi- cations as may be made by the legislatures of those parts or those Protectorates for adapting to the circumstances thereof the provisions of this Order.
Provided that if a local clearing office is established in India or in any self-governing Dominion, the provisions of this Order relating to the Clearing Office shall apply with respect to the relations between the Central Clearing Office and the local clearing office, and to transactions on behalf of the local clearing office which must be effected through the Central Clearing Office or which may be effectel by the Central Clearing Office at the request of the local clearing office.
4. This Order shall be deemed to have come into operation as from the date when the Treaty of Peace came into force, that is to say the sixteenth day of July, nineteen hundred and twenty.
5. This Order may be cited as the Treaty of Peace (Austria) Order, 1920.
Almeric FitzRoy.