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THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, MARCH 15, 1940.

HONG KONG.

No. 8 or 1940.

I assent.

L.S.

G. A. S. NORTIICOTE,

Governor.

15th March, 1940.

Short title.

Interpreta- tion.

2 & 3 Geo. 6,

c. 107,

s. 10 (1).

No. 25 of 1914.

Ordinance

Ordinance No. 40 of 1909.

Power of Registrar to suspend trade mark

rights of an enemy o an

enemy

subject.

c. 107, s. 3.

An Ordinance to make such special provision with respect to trade marks as is expedient to meet any emergency which may arise as a result of war.

[15th March, 1940.7

BE it enacted by the Governor of Hong Kong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:-

1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Trade Marks (Emergency) Ordinance, 1940.

2. (1) In this Ordinance, unless the context otherwise requires―

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enemy and enemy subject" have the meanings respectively assigned to them by the Trading with the Enemy Ordinance, 1914;

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"the Registrar means the Registrar of Trade Marks within the meaning of the Trade Marks Ordinance, 1909.

(2) References in this Ordinance to any enactment shall be construed as references to that enactment as amended by any subsequent enactment, including, except where the context otherwise requires, this Ordinance.

3.-(1) Where it is made to appear to the Registrar that it is difficult or impracticable to describe or refer to an article or substance without the use of a trade mark registered in respect of that article or substance, being a trade mark which is, or has at any time since the beginning of the third day of September nineteen hundred and thirty-nine been, registered

2 & 3 Geo. 6, in the name of an enemy or an enemy subject, whether alone or jointly with another, or which is, or has at any such time as aforesaid been, in the proprietorship of an enemy or an enemy subject, whether alone or jointly with another, the following provisions of this section shall have effect.