ORDINANCE of the Government of Fiji, to amend "The Foreign Animals Importation Ordinance, 1886."* [No. 19.] (L.S.) JOHN B. THURSTON. [December 19, 1891.] Be it enacted by the Governor, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council, as follows: 1. This Ordinance may be cited as "The Foreign Animals Importation Amendment Ordinance, 1891," and shall be read and construed with Ordinance No. 19 of 1886, hereinafter called the "Principal Ordinance." 2. "Master" shall mean the captain or master or other person in charge of any vessel. 3. The master of any vessel in which any stock may be imported to the Colony shall immediately upon his arrival in port deliver to an officer of customs at such port a certificate in the form contained in the Schedule hereto, and if such officer of customs so directs shall detain all such stock on board until they have been examined and a written permit shall have been granted for the landing thereof. Every master offending against the provisions of this section, and every person who knowingly or wilfully shall receive, purchase, or sell any stock landed or unshipped in contravention of this or the Principal Ordinance, shall be liable on conviction, in a summary manner, to imprisonment for any period not exceeding six months, or to a fine not exceeding 2007. 4. Notwithstanding anything contained in this or the Principal Ordinance, the Governor in Council may by Proclamation in the "Royal Gazette" restrict or absolutely prohibit for any specified time the importation of any stock from any other Colony or country in which there is reason to believe any infectious or contagious disease in stock exists. 5. This Ordinance shall come into force on the 1st day of January, 1892. Passed in Council, this 2nd day of December, in the year of our Lord, 1891. SCHEDULE. THE CONTAGIOUS DISEASES (ANIMALS) ORDINANCE. I, THE undersigned Inspector of Stock at the port of Colony of in the , having examined the stock described in the Schedule * Page 1205. below, certify that they are free from disease, and I further certify that such stock at the date of this certificate are on board the , whereof ACT of the Government of Queensland, to amend and consolidate the Law relating to Patents for Inventions, and the Registration of Designs and Trade-Marks.* [48 Vict., No. 13.] [Assented to October 13, 1884]. BE it enacted by the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council and Legislative Assembly of Queensland in Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows: : PART I.-PRELIMINARY. 1. This Act may be cited as "The Patents, Designs, and TradeMarks Act, 1884." 2. This Act is divided into parts, as follows: Part I.-Preliminary; Part II.-Patents; Part III.-Designs; Part IV.-Trade-marks; Part V.-International and intercolonial arrangements; Part VI.-General. Amended by Act 54 Vict., No. 8, page 1306. General Definitions. 3.—(1.) In and for the purposes of this Act, unless the context otherwise requires "Examiner " includes examiners, if more than one; "The Court means the Supreme Court of Queensland; "Law Officer" means Her Majesty's Attorney-General for Queensland; “The Minister” means the Colonial Secretary or other Minister charged with the execution of this Act; "Registrar" means the Registrar of Patents, Designs, and Trade-marks; "Prescribed" means prescribed by any of the Schedules to this Act, or by general rules under or within the meaning of this Act. "Patent" means Letters Patent for an invention; "Patentee" means the person for the time being entitled to the benefit of a patent; "Invention" means any manner of new manufacture, the subject of Letters Patent and grant of privilege within section 6 of the Statute of Monopolies (that is, the Act of the twenty-first year of the Reign of King James I, Chapter 3, intituled "An Act concerning Monopolies and Dispensations, with Penal Laws, and the forfeiture thereof "), and includes an alleged invention; "Design means any design applicable to any article of manufacture, or to any substance, artificial or natural, or partly artificial and partly natural, whether the design is applicable for the pattern or for the shape or configuration, or for the ornament thereof, or for any two or more of such purposes, and by whatever means it is applicable whether by printing, painting, embroidering, weaving, sewing, modelling, casting, embossing, engraving, staining, or any other means whatever, manual, mechanical, or chemical, separate or combined, not being a design for a sculpture or other thing within the protection of "The Sculpture Copyright Act" of the year 1814 (54 Geo. III, c. 56); "Copyright" means the exclusive right to apply a design to any article of manufacture, or to any such substance as aforesaid, in the class or classes in which the design is registered; "British possession" means any territory or place situate within Her Majesty's dominions, and not being or forming part of the United Kingdom, or of the Channel Islands, or of the Isle of Man, and all territories and places under one Legislature, as hereinafter defined, are deemed to be one British possession for the purposes of this Act; "Legislature" includes any person or persons who exercise legislative authority in the British possession; and where there are Local Legislatures as well as a Central Legislature, means the Central Legislature only; "Summary conviction means a conviction under the Summary Jurisdiction Acts, that is to say, the Acts regulating the duties of Justices of the Peace, and any Acts amending or in substitution for them. Transitional Provisions. 4. The Acts mentioned in the First Schedule to this Act are hereby repealed to the extent in the said Schedule indicated; but this repeal shall not (a.) Affect the past operation of any of those enactments, or any patent or copyright or right to use a trade-mark granted or acquired, or application pending, or appointment made, or compensation granted, or order or direction made or given, or right, privilege, obligation, or liability acquired, accrued, or incurred, or anything duly done or suffered under or by any of those enactments before or at the commencement of this Act; or (b.) Interfere with the institution or prosecution of any action or proceeding, civil or criminal, in respect thereof, and any such proceeding may be carried on as if this Act had not been passed; or (c.) Take away or abridge any protection or benefit in relation to any such action or proceeding. 5.-(1.) There shall be an office called the Patent Office at a convenient place, with such officers and clerks as the Governor in Council shall appoint, at which the business of this Act required to be transacted at the Patent Office shall be transacted. (2.) The Patent Office shall be under the immediate control of an officer called the Registrar of Patents, Desigus, and Trade-marks, acting under the superintendence and direction of the Minister. (3.) Any act or thing directed to be done by or to the Registrar may, in his absence, be done by or to any officer for the time being in that behalf authorized by the Minister. (4.) Until other provision is made in that behalf, the RegistrarGeneral shall be, and act as, Registrar of Patents, Designs, and Trade-marks. 6. This Act, except where it is otherwise expressed, shall commence from, and immediately after, the 31st day of December, 1881. PART II.-PATENTS. Application for, and grant of, Patent. 7.-(1.) Any person, whether a British subject or not, may an application for a patent. make (2.) Two or more persons may make a joint application for a patent, and a patent may be granted to them jointly. 8.-(1.) An application for a patent must be made in the form set forth in the Second Schedule to this Act, or in such other form as may be from time to time prescribed, and must be left at, or sent by post to, the Patent Office in the prescribed manner. (2.) An application must contain a declaration to the effect that the applicant is in possession of an invention, whereof he, or, in the case of a joint application, one or more of the applicants, claims or claim to be the true and first inventor or inventors, and for which he, or they, desires, or desire, to obtain a patent; and must be accompanied by either a provisional or complete specification. (3.) In the case of a joint application, the declaration may be made by one of the applicants. (4.) A provisional specification must describe the nature of the invention, and be accompanied by drawings, if required. (5.) A complete specification, whether left on application or subsequently, must particularly describe and set forth the nature of the invention, and in what manner it is to be performed, and must be accompanied by drawings, if required. (6.) A specification, whether provisional or complete, must commence with the title, and, in the case of a complete specification, must end with a distinct statement of the invention claimed. 9. The Registrar shall refer every application to an examiner or examiners, who shall ascertain and report to the Registrar whether the nature of the invention has been fairly described, and the application, specification, and drawings (if any) have been prepared in the prescribed manner, and the title sufficiently indicates the subject matter of the invention. 10.—(1.) If the examiner reports that the nature of the invention is not fairly described, or that the application, specification, or drawings has not or have not been prepared in the prescribed manner, or that the title does not sufficiently indicate the subject matter of the invention, the Registrar may require that the application, specification, or drawings be amended before he proceeds with the application. (2.) Where the Registrar requires an amendment, the applicant may appeal from his decision to the Law Officer. (3.) The Law Officer shall, if required, hear the applicant and the Registrar, and may make an order determining whether, and subject to what conditions, if any, the application shall be accepted. (4.) The Registrar shall, when an application has been accepted, give notice thereof to the applicant. (5.) If, after an application has been made, but before a patent has been sealed, an application is made, accompanied by a specifica |