FORM OF WARRANT OF THE PRESIDENT STATE COUNCIL FOR SURRENDER OF FUGITIVE. of accused (or convicted) within the jurisdiction by warrant dated was delivered into the custody of you, the Officer in charge of the Prison at Now I do hereby, in pursuance of the said Enactment, order you, the said Officer in charge of the Prison, to deliver the said into the custody of the said and I command you, the into your custody and to convey him and there place him in the custody of any person or persons appointed by the authorities of to receive him for which this shall be your warrant. Given under the hand and seal of the undersigned, President State Council this day of 13 ORDINANCE of the Government of Saint Vincent to provide for the Recognition of Notarial Acts, &c., done by British Diplomatic and Consular Officers. [No. 7.] [April 25, 1916.] I assent, G. B. HADDON-SMITH, April 15, 1916. BE it enacted by the Governor with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council of Saint Vincent as follows: 1. This Ordinance may be cited as "The Foreign Oaths Ordinance, 1916." 2. (1.) Every oath, affidavit, and notarial act administered, sworn, or done by or before any of the persons mentioned in the Schedule to this Ordinance shall be as effectual in this Colony as if duly administered, sworn, or done by or before any lawful authority in the Colony. (2.) Any document purporting to have affixed, impressed, or subscribed thereon or thereto the seal and signature of any person mentioned in the Schedule to this Ordinance in testimony of any oath, affidavit, or act being administered, taken or done by or before him, shall be admitted in evidence without proof of the seal or signature being the seal or signature of that person, or of the official character of that person. 3. The expression "British Consul" in paragraph (b.) of section 20 of the Registry Ordinance, 1883, shall be deemed to mean any of the persons mentioned in the Schedule to this Ordinance. 4. In this Ordinance unless the context otherwise requires : "Oath includes affirmation and declaration. "Affidavit " includes affirmation, statutory or other declaration, acknowledgment, examination, and attestation or protestation of honour. "Swear" includes affirm, declare and protest. SCHEDULE. British ambassador, envoy, minister, chargé d'affaires or secretary of embassy or legation, exercising his functions in a foreign country; British consul-general, consul, vice-consul, acting consul, proconsul, and consular agent, acting consul-general, acting vice-consul, acting consular agent, exercising his functions in any foreign place. Passed the Legislative Council the 8th day of April, 1916, and published in the Government Gazette this 25th day of April, 1916. S. C. CONNELL, Acting Clerk of Councils. ORDINANCE of the Somaliland Protectorate to provide for the Recognition of Notarial Acts, &c., done by British Diplomatic and Consular Officers. [No. 1.] It is hereby enacted as follows: [September 20, 1916.] 1. This Ordinance may be cited as "The Recognition of Oaths, etc., Ordinance, 1916." 2. Every oath, affidavit, and notarial act duly administered, sworn, or done by or before any British Ambassador, Envoy, Minister, Chargé d'Affaires, and Secretary of Embassy or Legation exercising his functions in any foreign country, and every British Consul-General, Consul, Vice-Consul, Acting Consul, Pro-Consul, and Consular Agent exercising his functions in any foreign place, shall be recognised as effectual in the Protectorate Court and in the District Civil and Criminal Courts of the Somaliland Protectorate. 3. Any document purporting to have affixed, impressed, or subscribed thereon or thereto the seal and signature of any person authorised to administer an oath in testimony of any oath, affidavit, or act being administered, taken, or done by or before him, shall be admitted in evidence in all Courts of the Protectorate without proof of the seal or signature of that person, or of the official character of that person. 4. In this Ordinance, unless the context otherwise requires, "Oath" includes affirmation and declaration; "Affidavit" includes affirmation, statutory or other declaration, acknowledgment, examination, and attestation or protestation of honour; "Swear" includes affirm, declare, and protest. ACT of the Union of South Africa to consolidate and amend the Laws relating to the granting of Letters Patent for Inventions and for the registration of Patents, Designs, Trade-marks, and Copyright. [No. 9.] [Assented to April 7, 1916.] [Signed by the Governor-General in English.] BE it enacted by the King's Most Excellent Majesty, the Senate, and the House of Assembly of the Union of South Africa, as follows: : Introductory. 1. This Act is divided into five chapters relating to the following matters : Chapter I-Patents. Chapter II.-Designs. Chapter III.-Trade-marks. Chapter IV.-Copyright. Chapter V.-General and Supplementary Provisions. Chapters I, II, and III are divided into Parts. The Parts of Chapter I severally relate to Definitions and Transitional Provisions (Part I). Procedure for obtaining a grant of Letters Patent Working of Patents and Compulsory Licences (Part IV). Rights of the Crown in respect of Patented Inventions Patent Agents (Part VII). Miscellaneous Provisions (Part VIII). The Parts of Chapter II severally relate to Transitional Provisions (Part I). Registration of Designs (Part II). Copyright in Registered Designs (Part III) General (Part V). The Parts of Chapter III severally relate to- Registrable Trade-marks (Part II). Assignment of Registered Trade-marks (Part IV). Miscellaneous Provisions (Part VI). 2. (1.) Any chapter of this Act shall come into operation on such date as the Governor-General may by proclamation in the "Gazette" fix. (2.) Different dates may be fixed for the coming into operation of any chapter of this Act, and the date fixed for the coming into operation of Chapters I, II, III, or IV shall be the date upon which those provisions of Chapter V which are incidental to the provisions of any other particular chapter shall come into operation. (3.) The date of operation of any chapter of this Act is hereinafter referred to as the commencement of that chapter. 3. The Minister of Justice, or any other Minister of State whom the Governor-General may assign for the purpose, shall be charged with the administration of this Act. The Minister of Justice or (as the case may be) any other Minister of State so assigned is in this Act referred to as the Minister. 4. For the purposes of this Act there shall be established offices called respectively (a.) The Patent Office, and each such office shall be at Pretoria. 5.-(1.) There shall be an officer for the Union styled the Registrar of Patents, Designs, Trade-marks, and Copyright, who shall be appointed by the Governor-General, subject to the laws relating to the public service, and who shall, under the Minister, have the chief control of the several offices established under the last preceding section. (2.) The Governor-General may, subject to the provisions of the laws relating to the public service, appoint in any office established under the last preceding section, such examiners and other officers as may be necessary for carrying out the provisions of any chapter of this Act. CHAPTER I.-Patents. Part I.-Definitions and Transitional Provisions. 6. For the purposes of this chapter "Inventor" shall not include a person importing an invention from outside the Union. "Invention" shall, unless the context of any provision of this chapter otherwise requires, mean any new and useful art, process, machine, manufacture or composition of matter, or any new and useful improvement thereof, capable of being used or applied in trade or industry, and not known or used by others in the Union, and not patented or described in any printed publication in the Union or any other country, before the application for a patent in respect of the same. "Patent Office" shall mean the Patent Office established under section 4. "Patent" shall mean letters patent for an invention granted in the Union. "Patented article" shall mean an article in respect of which a patent has been granted. "Patentee" shall mean the person for the time being entitled to the benefit of a patent. "Provincial Patent Act" shall mean a law relating to patents which was in force in any province on the 31st May, 1910, and shall include all regulations in force thereunder. 7. The provisions of this chapter shall not affect any proceedings under any Provincial Patent Act, nor save as is otherwise expressly provided in this chapter any right or liability acquired or incurred before the commencement of this chapter; and any pending proceedings may, subject to the provisions relating to the transfer of patent administration to the Patent Office, be continued and completed as if this chapter had not been enacted. 8.-(1.) The patentee under a Provincial Patent Act whose patent is still in force may, within one year after the commencement of this chapter, make application for an Union patent for his invention. Save as otherwise prescribed, all proceedings in connection with such an application shall be taken within the times and in the manner prescribed for ordinary applications, and shall be subject to the payment of any prescribed fees. (2.) The Registrar may grant a patent under this chapter for that invention; but such patent shall be granted without prejudice to any prior rights acquired by any other person in respect of the same invention in any province. (3.) Every patent granted under this section shall be for the unexpired period of the first patent under a Provincial Patent Act. (4.) Subject to the provisions of sub-section (2), the grant of a patent under this section shall be valid notwithstanding that before the application for such grant an invention has been published in any province. (5.) The patent under the Provincial Patent Act shall continue in force notwithstanding the grant of a patent under this Act. (6.) Any province (other than that in which the provincial patent was granted) may, if the applicant so notify his desire in his application, be excepted from such patent. (7.) In any proceedings in which the validity of a patent granted under this section comes into question, the Court may, |