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ATTORNEY GENERAL'S CHAMBERS,
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Hongkong
12th Jun.....19/1.
Report on Ordinance No... 22... of 191 1.
I have examined the accompanying Ordinance entitled "An Ordinance to amend
the Patents Amendment Ordinance, 1909"
and I am of opinion that the Ordinance is one which is not contrary to the Governor's Instructions,
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These amendments in the Patents Ordinances are undertaken in con-
-sequence of instructions received from His Majesty's Principal Secretary
of State for the Colonies. The 13th August, 1909, was the date of the
passing of Ordinance No. 22 of 1909 but as that as an amending Ordinance
to be re: d and construed with Ordinance No. 2 of 1892 the use of the words
"under the provisions of such statutes as are now in force in the United
Kingdom" were confusing as it was intended to include the Imperial Act of
1907. The first proviso is inserted because His Majesty's Secretary of
State after consultation with the Board of Trade has decided that patents ir
Cron Colonies should not necessarily be revocable as a result of rEVOCE -
-tion in the United Kingdom. The second proviso is adapted to the needs Of
the Colony, The English Act enforces the manufacture of patented articles
in England. The Colony is a centre of Colonial Trade but few articles
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are manufactured here; and to revoke the local atents on articles manufactured in the Empire, hich are not
also manufactured locally, would be to destroy the value of local patents and to sacrifice the spirit of the
Imperial Act to its letter.
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