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AD. 1892.]

SURVEYOR GENERAL.

[No. 2.

"The

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Burveyor 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 nd consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:-

This Ordinance may be cited as the Surveyor General's (Change of Short title. Name) Ordinance, 1892.

of Ordinance,

" Surveyor

2. Wherever in any Ordinance, Order of the Governor-in-Council, Construction Order of the Governor, rule, regulation, or by-law, or in any deed, lease, or other document, the expression "Surveyor General," expression

Surveyor General's Department," or "Surveyor General's Office," or General," eto., any similar expression occurs, and in order to give effect to such is used. 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.]

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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.

d. 22/09. 22/11

Short title.

owner or.

assignee of

This Ordinance may be cited as the Patents Ordinance, 1892. 2(1.) It shall be lawful for the inventor, or for the owner by Authority to Assignment, transmission, or other operation of law, of any invention or

the exclusive right thereto in this Colony to petition the Governor invention to for Letters Patent for any invention for which Letters Patent have petition for

Letters already been granted in England, and such petition may be in the Form Patent. aminded by ord. No. 1 in the First Schedule to this Ordinance.

First Schedule:

22/095.2(a)

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 led on the petition for Letters-Patent for the said invention in

ngland, and by a declaration which may be in the Form No. 2 in the Form No. 2, 2)

Refeated and substituted by or 3.27/0