A.D. 1892.]
SURVEYOR GENERAL.
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Surveyor General's Department shall be known as and styled Public Works Department," and it is expedient to give effect thereto :
Be it therefore enacted by the Governor of Hongkong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:-
This Ordinance may be cited as the Surveyor General's (Change of Name) Ordinance, 1892.
2. Wherever in any Ordinance, Order of the Governor-in-Council, Order of the Governor, rule, regulation, or by-law, or in any deed, lease, or other document, the expression "Surveyor General," "Surveyor General's Department," or "Surveyor General's Office," or any similar expression occurs, and in order to give effect to such Ordinance, Order-in-Council, Order of the Governor, rule, regulation, by-law, or other document as aforesaid, it is necessary to substitute the expression "Director of Public Works," "Public Works Department," "Public Works Office," or other similar expression, such Ordinance, Order-in-Council, Order of the Governor, rule, regulation, by-law, and other document shall be read and construed accordingly.
ORDINANCE No. 2 OF 1892.
AN ORDINANCE to consolidate and amend the Law relating to the Grant in this Colony of Letters Patent for Inventions.
[1st April, 1892.]
Be it enacted by the Governor of Hongkong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:-
A.D. 1892:
Ordinance No. 2 of 1892.
Short title.
1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Patents Ordinance, 1892.
2.(1.) It shall be lawful for the inventor, or for the owner by Assignment, transmission, or other operation of law, of any invention or the exclusive right thereto in this Colony to petition the Governor for Letters Patent for any invention for which Letters Patent have already been granted in England, and such petition may be in the Form No. 1 in the First Schedule to this Ordinance.
First Schedule:
Form No. 1;
(2) Every such petition shall be accompanied by a specification of the said invention identical, as far as practicable, with the specification lodged on the petition for Letters-Patent for the said invention in England, and by a declaration which may be in the Form No. 2 in the First Schedule.
Form No. 2,
Repealed and substituted by Ord. No. 3. 27/0