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1878. NEW ZEALAND.

RULES AND REGULATIONS UNDER "THE PATENTS ACT, 1870."

Presented to both Houses of the General Assembly, in compliance with the provisions of " The Patents Act, 1870."

Rules and Regulations under "The Patents Act, 1870." Normanby, Governor. OEDER IN COUNCIL. At the Government House, at Wellington, this second day of September, 1878. Present: His Excellency the Governor in Council. Whereas by the sixth section of " The Patents Act, 1870," it is enacted that it shall be lawful for the Governor in Council from time to time to make such rules and regulations, not inconsistent with the provisions of the said Act, as may appear to be necessary and expedient for the purposes of the said Act: Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor, by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the Colony of New Zealand, and in pursuance and exercise of the above-recited power and authority, doth hereby make the following rules and regulations for the purposes of the said Act, in lieu of the rules arid regulations made on the twentieth day of September, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-one, and the fourteenth day of May, one thousand eight hundred and seventythree, which are hereby repealed, except as to all proceedings, acts, matters, and things lawfully done, taken, or commenced under the said regulations, or any of them : — Patent Office. 1. For the purposes of " The Patents Act, 1870 " (hereinafter called the said Act), there shall be attached to the Colonial Secretary's Office, at Wellington, an office which shall be the office of the Patent Officer, and which shall be called the Patent Office. The Patent Office shall be the office or place for the purposes mentioned or referred to in the seventh, nineteenth, twentieth, twenty-third, twenty-ninth, thirtieth, and thirty-first sections of the said Act. 2. For the purposes of the said Act, and particularly for those specified in the seventh, nineteenth, twentieth, twenty-third, twenty-fourth, twenty-ninth, thirtieth, thirty-first, thirty-second, and thirtyfourth sections of the said Act, there shall be an officer who shall be called the .Registrar of Patents, and who shall have the care aud custody of all registers and documents iv the Patent Office, and to whom all notices or instruments required or authorized by the said Act or these regulations may be delivered. The person now 7 fulfilling the office of Eegistrar of Patents shall be deemed to have been appointed hereunder. 3. The Patent Office will not correspond, and therefore all business -with it must be transacted personally by the applicants or by their agents ; and, upon any application or hearing, the applicant may appear personally or by agent. Letters Patent. 4. Every specification relating to applications for Letters Patent shall be subject to the following conditions :— (1.) It must be written in a large, legible hand, or printed in fair legible type, and shall be in the form contained in the First Schedule to the said Act, or to the like effect. (2.) It shall be writteu bookwise upon both sides of one or more skins of parchment, and every page thereof shall be twenty inches in length by fifteen inches in breadth. (3.) The title of the inveution must state distinctly and specifically the nature and object of the invention, and every specification must be limited to one invention.