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Every such petition shall be further accompanied by a declaration which as he is entitled to make by The Form No. ?? in the said Schedule or in such other form, not being less specific as to the Governor may appear proper. Ord. 22/095.
New sub-section added by Ord. 22/95.21d)
Filing and advertisement of petition, specification, and declaration.
2022/09.
No. 2.] THE ORDINANCES OF HONGKONG: (A.D. 1892 said Schedule or in such other form, not being less specific, as to the Governor may appear proper
(3.) Every such declaration shall be made before some person duly authorized to administer an oath in the country where it is made. Every person who knowingly makes any untrue or false statement in any such declaration shall, on conviction, be liable to the penalties of perjury.
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3. Such petition, specification, and declaration shall be sent to the office of the Colonial Secretary, and notice thereof and of any intention to apply for such Letters Patent, and of the time of the sitting of the Executive Council before which the matter of the petition will come for decision, together with such other particulars as the Governor may require, shall be inserted twice in The Gazette, and shall be otherwise advertised as the Governor may direct.
Restored by § beford. 22/11
Hearing of petition and grant or refusal of Letters Patent.
4. (1.) The Governor-in-Council shall, at the sitting to be appointed for deciding on such petition for Letters Patent as aforesaid, or at any adjournment thereof, determine on such application for Letters Patent and grant or refuse the prayer of the said petition as may appear expedient, and for such time or times, not exceeding the period. Repealed and substituted by Ord. 22/0984
Letters Patent.
Effect of grant.
& enterotated Repeated by Ord. 22/95.5
Extension of Letters Patent.
Not by Ord. 27/095.
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Restored § 44. Now 22/11
Keeping of Register of Patents.
then duration of the Letters Patent for the said invention or for any less period, and subject to such conditions in all respects, as to the Governor-in-Council may seem fit.
(2.) The said Letters Patent may be in such form as is prescribed by the Patents, Designs, and Trade Marks Acts, 1883 to 1888, of the Imperial Parliament, or any rules made thereunder, or as near thereto as circumstances will permit.
5. Letters Patent to be granted under this Ordinance shall confer all the rights and privileges and shall subject the grantees thereof to all the provisions affecting Letters Patent in England as fully as if the same had been granted with an extension thereof to this Colony by Her Majesty under the provisions of the statutes now in force in England or as near thereto as the circumstances of this Colony admit of.
6. In case Her Majesty, by the advice of the Judicial Committee of Her Majesty's Privy Council, extends the privileges of any Letters Patent in England for any invention for any period, it shall be lawful for the Governor-in-Council to extend in like manner such Letter Patent, if already granted for this Colony, or otherwise to grant original Letters Patent for a like extended period for the same invention.
7. (1.) There shall be kept at the Colonial Secretary's Office a book called “The Register of Patents," in which shall be entered the name