shall notify in writing to the comptroller whether or not he intends to be heard upon the matter. statement, etc. 104. Whether the applicant desires to be heard or not, the Comptroller comptroller may at any time require him to submit a statement may require in writing within a time to be notified by the comptroller, or to attend before him and make oral explanations with respect to such matters as the comptroller may require. be notified 105. The decision or determination of the comptroller in the Decision to exercise of any such discretionary power as aforesaid shall be to parties. notified by him to the applicant, and to any other person who appears to him to be affected thereby. STATUTORY DECLARATIONS AND AFFIDAVITS. declaration 106. The statutory declarations and affidavits required by these Form, &c., of Rules, or used in any proceedings thereunder, shall be headed in statutory the matter or matters to which they relate and shall be drawn up and affidavit. in the first person, and shall be divided into paragraphs consecutively numbered, and each paragraph shall so far as possible be confined to one subject. Every statutory declaration or affidavit shall state the description and true place of abode of the person making the same, and shall be written or printed book wise and shall bear the name and address of the person leaving it and shall state on whose behalf it is left. 107. The statutory declarations and affidavits required by the Manner in Act and these Rules, or used in any proceedings thereunder, shall which, and per be made and subscribed as follows: sons before whom, declaration or affidavit (a) In the United Kingdom, before any justice of the peace, is to be taken (b) In any other part of His Majesty's dominions, before any Court, judge, justice of the peace, or any officer autho- (c) If made out of His Majesty's dominions, before a British GENERAL. amendment,. 108. Any document for the amending of which no special Power of provision is made by the Act may be amended, and any irregularity &c. in procedure, which in the opinion of the comptroller may be General power to enlarge time. Days and hours of business. Excluded days. Power to dispense with evidence, signature, etc. Applications to a Court. Orders of obviated without detriment to the interests of any person, may be corrected, if and on such terms as the comptroller may think fit. 109. The times prescribed by these Rules for doing any act, or taking any proceeding thereunder, other than the times for lodging evidence referred to in Rules 68 to 74, or the times prescribed by Rules 16, 41 and 55, may be enlarged by the comptroller if he thinks fit, and upon such notice to other parties, and proceedings thereon, and upon such terms, as he may direct. 110. The Office shall be open to the public every weekday except Saturday between the hours of ten and four, and on Saturday between the hours of ten and one, except on the days following: Christmas Day, Good Friday, the day observed as His Majesty's birthday, the days observed as days of public fast or thanksgiving, or as holidays at the Bank of England, and days which may from time to time be notified by a placard posted in a conspicuous place at the Office. 111. Whenever the last day fixed by the Act, or by these Rules, for doing anything shall fall on a day when the Office is not open or on a Saturday, which days shall be excluded days for the purposes of the Act and these Rules, it shall be lawful to do any such thing on the day next following such excluded day, or days if two or more of them occur consecutively. 112. Where, under these Rules, any person is required to do any act or thing, or to sign any document, or to make any declaration on behalf of himself or of any body corporate, or any document or evidence is required to be produced to or left with the comptroller, or at the Office, and it is shown to the satisfaction of the comptroller that from any reasonable cause such person is unable to do such act or thing, or to sign such document, or to make such declaration, or that such document or evidence cannot be produced or left as aforesaid, it shall be lawful for the comptroller, with the sanction of the Board, and upon the production of such other evidence, and subject to such terms as he may think fit, to dispense with any such act or thing, document, declaration, or evidence. APPLICATIONS TO AND ORDERS OF COURT. 113. Four clear days' notice of every application to the Court under sect. 72 of the Act for rectification of the register of patents shall be given to the comptroller. Where any Order has been made by the Court under the Act revoking a patent or extending the term of a patent, or allowing a patentee to amend his specification or affecting the validity or proprietorship of a patent, the person in whose favour such Order has been made shall forthwith leave at the Office an office copy of such Order together with Patents Form No. 34. The specification shall thereupon be amended or the register rectified or the purport of such Order shall otherwise be duly entered in the register as the case may be. REPEAL. 114. All general rules relative to Patents heretofore made by Repeal. the Board of Trade under the Patents, Designs, and Trade Marks Acts, 1883 to 1902, and in force on the 31st day of December, 1907, shall be and they are hereby repealed as from that date, without prejudice, nevertheless, to anything done under such rules, or to any application or other matter then pending. Dated the 17th day of December, 1907. D. Lloyd George, President of the Board of Trade. THE FIRST SCHEDULE. LIST OF FEES PAYABLE IN RESPECT OF THE GRANT OF PATENTS AND OF |