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Ch. 31. No. 18.) Patents, Designs and Trade Marks.

foregoing provisions of this Ordinance for doing any
act in relation to an application made by virtue of this
section:

(f{) may provide for securing that the rights conferred
by a patent granted or registration made on an appli-
cation made by virtue of this section shall be subject
to such restriction or conditions as may be specified
by or under the rules and in particular that where,
otherwise than as the result) of any communication
made in accordance with such an agreement or arrange-
ment as is mentioned in paragraph (a) of this sub-
section, and before the date of the application in
question or such later date as may be allowed by the
rules, either the invention has been made, used, exer-
cised or vended, or the design applied, by any person
(including a person acting on behalf of His Majesty),
or application for a patent for the invention or for
registration of the design has been made by any such
person as aforesaid, the rights conferred by a patent
eranted, or registration mi de, upon the first-mentioned
application shall be subject to such conditions and
reservations for the protection of that person as may be
specified by or under the rule.

66. Where an agreement or arrangement has been made
between His Majesty’s government in the United Kingdom
and the government of another country for the supply or
mutual exchange of information or article. , and the Governor
is satisfied that provision substantially equivalent to the
provision to be made by or under this section has been or will
he made under the law of that country, the Governor mi ay
make rules to secure that the communication, in accordance
with the agreement or arrangement, of an invention or
design, or the publication, making, use, exercise or vending
of an invention, or publication or application of a design,
in consequence of such communication, shall not prejudice
any application for a patent for the invention or registration
of the design, being an application made by a person from
whom the invention or design was so communicated or the
legal representative or assignee of such a person, or invali-
date the grant on such an application of a patent for the
invention or the registration of such an application of the
design.