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the Supreme Court by either party to the dispute in such manner as may be prescribed by rules of court
(2) In any proceedings under this section in which the Attorney General represents the Crown or the Government, the Attorney General may-
(a) if the person entitled under the relevant certificate of registration to the privileges and rights conferred thereby is a party to the proceedings, apply for a declaration, on any of the grounds upon which such a declaration may be made under section 8, that the exclu- sive privileges and rights conferred by such certificate of registration have not beco acquired;
(b) in any case, put in issue the validity of the certificate without applying for such a declaration as aforesaid.
(3) If in such proceedings as aforesaid any question arises whether an invention has been recorded or tried as mentioned in section 7B, and the disclosure of any document recording the invention, or of any evidence of the trial thereof, would in the opinion of the Governor be prejudicial to the public interest, the disclosure may be made confidentially to counsel for the other party or to an independent expert mutually agreed upon.
(4) In determining under this section any dispute between the Government and any person as to terms for the use of an invention for the services of the Crown, the court shall have regard to any benefit or compensation which that person or any person from whom he derives title may have received, or may be entitled to receive, directly or indirectly from the Government in respect of the invention in question.
(5) In any proceedings under this section the court may at any time order the whole proceedings or any question or issue of fact arising therein to be referred to a special referee or an arbitrator on such terms as the court may direct; and references to the court in the foregoing provisions of this section shall be construed accordingly.".
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This printed impression has been carefully compared by me with the Bill which passed the Legislative Council on the 26th day of June, 1968, and is found by me to be a true and correctly printed copy of the said Bill.
(Secretarial GR 54/3231/47)
Deputy Clerk of Councils.