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

67. (1) Any rules made in pursuance of the last two
preceding sections shall be laid before the Legislative
Council.

(2) Any such rules and any order made, direction
given, or other action taken under the rules by the Regis-
trar, may be made, given or taken so as to have effect as
respects things done or omitted to be done on or after such
date, whether before or after the coming into operation of
the rules, as may be specified in the rules.

68. (1) Whenever it appears to the Governor in Council
that the legislature of any British Possession has made
satisfactory provision for the protection in such Possession
of inventions, designs, and trade marks, patented or
registered in the Colony, the Governor in Council mav, by
order, apply all or any of the provisions of the last preceding
section relating to the protection of inventions, designs, and
trade marks, patented or registered in the United Kingdom,
with such variations or additions, if any, as to the Governor
in Council scem fit, to inventions patented, and designs and
trade marks registered, in such British Possession.

(2) An order under this section shall, from a date to be
mentioned for the purpose in the order, take effect as if its
provisions had been contained in this Ordinance,

69. (1) An application for a patent or for the registra-
tion of a design may be refused by the Registrar at any
stage of the proceedings on the ground that the invention
or design was, during the period beginning with the 3rd of
September, 1938, and ending with the 31st of December,
1945, invented or designed in Germany or Japan or invented
or designed by a German or Japanese national in any
territory which was then enemy territory.

(2) The ground mentioned in subsection (1) of this
section shall be an additional ground for revoking a patent
under section 10, and shall also, on infringement pro-
ceedings, be an additional ground of defence or for a
counterclaim for the revocation of a patent or the cancella-
tion of the registration of a design.

61 (2)

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Provisions
as to rules
under sec-
tions 65
and 66,

Inter-
colonial ar-
Tangements.

Inventions
and designs
made in
Germany or
Japan.