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of goods for the purposes of this Act, and generally for the purpose of carrying into effect this Act, as he may deem expedient. Any rules made in pursuance of this section shall be forthwith laid before both Houses of Parliament if Parliament be then sitting, or if not then sitting then within ten days after the then next assembling of Parliament, and shall be of the same validity as if they had been enacted by Parliament: Provided that if either House of Parliament resolve within one month after such rules have been laid before such House that any of such rules ought not to continue in force, any rule in respect of which such Resolution has been passed shall, after the date of such Resolution, cease to be of any force, without prejudice nevertheless to the making of any other rule in its place, or to anything done in pursuance of any such rules before the date of such Resolution.

Legal Proceedings.

23. During the existence of copyright in any design

(a.) It shall not be lawful for any person without the licence or written consent of the registered proprietor to apply, or cause to be applied, such design or any fraudulent or obvious imitation thereof in the class or classes of goods in which such design is registered, for the purposes of sale, to any article of manufacture or to any substance, artificial or natural, or partly artificial and partly natural.

(b.) It shall not be lawful for any person to publish or expose for sale any article of manufacture or any substance to which such design or any fraudulent or obvious imitations thereof shall have been so applied without the consent of the registered proprietor.

Any person who acts in contravention of this section shall be liable for every offence to forfeit a sum not exceeding 50l. to the registered proprietor of the design, who may recover such sum in the Court of any Magistrate having jurisdiction: Provided that the total sum forfeited in respect of any one design shall not exceed 100%

24. Notwithstanding the remedy given by this Act for the recovery of such penalty as aforesaid, the registered proprietor of any design may, if he elect to do so, as an alternative to the remedy in the preceding section mentioned, bring an action for the recovery of any damages arising from the application of any such design or of any fraudulent or obvious imitation thereof, for the purpose of sale, to any article of manufacture or substance, or from the publication, sale, or exposure for sale by any person of any article or substance to which such design or any fraudulent or obvious imitation thereof shall have been so applied, such person knowing that the proprietor had not given his consent to such application.

Offences.

25. If any person makes or causes to be made a false entry in any register kept under this Act, or a writing falsely purporting to be a copy of an entry in such register, or produces, or tenders, or causes to be produced or tendered in evidence any such writing, knowing the entry or writing to be false, he shall be guilty of the crime of fraud.

26. Any person who describes any design applied to any article sold by him as registered which is not so, shall be liable for every offence to a fine not exceeding 201., to be recovered in any competent Court.

27. A person shall be deemed for the purposes of this Act to represent that a design is registered if he sells the article with the word registered, or any word or words expressing or implying that registration has been obtained for the article stamped, engraved, or impressed on or otherwise applied to the article.

Industrial, Intercolonial, International, and other Exhibitions.

28. The exhibition at an industrial, intercolonial or international exhibition, or the exhibition elsewhere during the period of the holding of the exhibition, without the privity or consent of the proprietor of a design or of any article to which a design is applied, or the publication during the holding of any such exhibition of a description of a design, shall not prevent the design from being registered, or invalidate the registration thereof, provided that both the following conditions are complied with, viz. :—

(a.) The exhibitor must, before exhibiting the design or article, or publishing a description of the design, give the Registrar the prescribed notice of his intention to do so; and

(b.) The application for registration must be made before or within six months from the date of the opening of the exhibition.

Short Title.

29. This Act may be cited as "The Registration of Designs Act, 1899."

SCHEDULE.

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Given at Government House, Natal, this 28th day of August,

1899.

By command of his Excellency the Governor:

CHARLES J. SMYTHE, Colonial Secretary.

ACT of the Government of Bermuda, entitled "The Alien

[No. 13.]

Act, 1900."

[March 1, 1900.]

WHEREAS by "The Alien Act, 1897,"* it is enacted that no deed by which an alien or statutory alien should, after the commencement of that Act, dispose of land under the provisions of the said Act, should be valid or effectual for that purpose unless the same should be executed by such alien in the presence of, and attested by, two or more credible witnesses, and such execution should be proved in the manner prescribed by the 9th section of

* Vol. XC, page 937.

the said Act: but no provision is made in the said Act for the execution of such deeds by the attorney of any alien or statutory alien, and it is expedient to authorize and validate the execution of such deeds by the attorneys of such aliens:

We therefore, &c., be it enacted, &c.:

1. Any deed or conveyance of any land or real estate in these Islands of any alien or statutory alien, under the provisions of "The Alien Act, 1897," heretofore executed, or hereafter to be executed, by any attorney of such alien or statutory alien, appointed by any power of attorney, executed, proved, and recorded in the manner prescribed or allowed by the 9th section of the said Act, with respect to conveyances of lands in these Islands of aliens or statutory aliens, shall be as valid and effectual as if such deed or conveyance had been signed, sealed, and executed by such alien or statutory alien by his, or her, own hand, and in the case of any married woman party thereto, had been acknowledged to have been freely and voluntarily executed by her.

2. This Act shall be construed together and as one with "The Alien Acts, 1857-1897," and may be cited together with those Acts as The Alien Acts, 1857-1900."

66

ACT of the Government of Bermuda, entitled “The Immigration

[No. 31.]

Act, 1900."

[July 26, 1900.]

WHEREAS "The Immigration Acts, 1898," are about to expire, and it is expedient to continue the principal Act, with the amendments hereinafter contained:

We therefore, &c., be it enacted, &c. :

1. The title of "The Immigration Act, 1897,"* shall henceforth be "The Immigration Act, 1898," and in all copies of the said Act hereafter printed the title hereby given to the said Act shall be substituted for the original title thereof.

2. This Act shall be construed together and as one with "The Immigration Act, 1898," and the two Acts may be cited together as "The Immigration Acts, 1898-1900."

3. Every Immigration Officer shall be allowed out of the Public Treasury, in addition to the fees and allowances granted to him under "The Immigration Act, 1898," a fee of 48. for every ship visited and boarded by him under the provisions of the said Act.

4. "The Immigration Act (No. 2), 1898," is hereby repealed,

* Vol. XC, page 941.

but such repeal shall not prevent the payment of any allowance due to any Immigration Officer under that Act.

5. "The Immigration Act, 1898," with the amendments and additions contained in this Act, is hereby continued in force until and throughout the last day of December, 1901.

6. Nothing herein contained shall be construed to prevent any further amendment of the Act hereby amended during the present Session of the Legislature.

ACT of the Government of Bermuda, to amend an Act to authorize the Prohibition of the Exportation of Arms and Ammunition.

[No. 48.]

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[November 15, 1900.]

WHEREAS it is expedient to amend the Act passed in the year 1862, entitled "An Act to authorize the Prohibition of the Exportation of Arms and Ammunition :"

We therefore, &c., be it enacted, &c. :

1. The Act passed in the year 1862,* entitled "An Act to authorize the Prohibition of the Exportation of Arms and Ammunition," may be cited as "The Arms Exportation Act, 1862," and this Act may be cited as "The Arms Exportation Act, 1900," and the said Act and this Act shall be construed together and as one, and may be cited as "The Arms Exportation Acts, 1862-1900."

2. It shall be lawful for the Governor, by and with the advice of the Executive Council, by Proclamation, to prohibit the exportation from these Islands of all or any of the following articles, namely, arms, ammunition, military and naval stores, and any article which the Governor in Council shall judge capable of being converted into or made useful in increasing the quantity of arms, ammunition, or military or naval stores, to any country or place named in such Proclamation, whenever the Governor in Council shall judge such prohibition to be expedient in order to prevent such arms, ammunition, military or naval stores, being used against Her Majesty's subjects or forces, or against any forces engaged, or which may be engaged, in military or naval operations in co-operation with Her Majesty's forces; and all the provisions of "The Arms Exportation Act, 1862," so far as they are applicable to the exportation of prohibited goods, shall apply as if they were embodied in this Act, and as if the 2nd section of this Act were part of the 1st section of that Act.

* See "Hertslet's Treaties," Vol. 12, page 1002.

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