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conduct unless such person has received notice of, and had an opportunity of defending himself from, any charge brought against him.

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18. Where the Board direct the erasure from the Register of a Restoration by name of any person, or of any other entry, the name of the person erased name. or the entry shall not be again entered in the Register, except by order of the Board.

The Board may in any case in which they think fit restore to the Register such name or entry erased therefrom either without fee, or on payment of such fee, not exceeding the registration fee, as the Board may from time to time fix, and the Registrar shall restore the name accordingly.

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19. For the purpose of exercising in any case the powers of Inquiry by erasing from and of restoring to the Register the name of a Trade before person, or an entry, the Board may appoint a committee con- erasure of sisting of such persons as they shall think fit. Every applica- name from tion to the Board for the erasure from, or restoration to, the Register. Register of the name of any patent agent shall be referred for hearing and inquiry to the committee, who shall report thereon to the Board, and a report of the committee shall be conclusive as to the facts for the purpose of the exercise of the said powers by the Board.

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20. The name of any person erased from the Register at the Restoration request or with the consent of such person shall, unless it might, if by Institute of not so erased, have been erased by order of the Board, be restored to the Register by the Registrar on his application and on payment of such fee, not exceeding the registration fee, as the Institute shall from time to time fix.

21. Any person aggrieved by any order, direction, or refusal of Appeal to the Institute or Registrar may appeal to the Board.

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22. A person who intends to appeal to the Board under these Rules (in these Rules referred to as the appellant) shall, appeal. within 14 days from the date of the making or giving of the order, direction, or refusal complained of, leave at the office of the Institute a notice in writing signed by him of such his intention.

23. The notice of intention to appeal shall be accompanied by Case on appeal. a statement in writing of the grounds of the appeal, and of the case of the appellant in support thereof.

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24. The appellant shall also immediately after leaving his Transmission notice of appeal at the Institute send by post a copy thereof with of notice of a copy of the appellant's case in support thereof addressed to the appeal to Secretary of the Board of Trade, 7, Whitehall Gardens, London. Trade. 25. The Board may thereupon give such directions (if any) Directions as as they may think fit for the purpose of the hearing of the to hearing appeal. appeal. 26. Seven days' notice, or such shorter notice as the Board may Notice of in any particular case direct, of the time and place appointed for hearing of appeal. the hearing of the appeal shall be given to the appellant and the Institute and the Registrar.

27. The appeal may be heard and decided by the Board, and Hearing and such decision may be given or order made in reference to the decision of appeal. subject-matter of the appeal as the case may require.

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28. The fees set forth in Appendix B. to these Rules shall be paid in respect of the several matters, and at the times and in the manner therein mentioned. The Board may from time to time, alter any of, or add to, the fees payable under these Rules.

29. Any regulation made by the Institute under these Rules may be altered or revoked by a subsequent regulation. Copies of all regulations made by the Institute under these Rules shall, within twenty-eight days of the date of their being made, be transmitted to the Board, and if within twenty-eight days after a copy of any regulation has been so transmitted, the Board by an order signify their disapproval thereof, such regulation shall be of no force or effect; and if, after any regulation under these Rules has come into force, the Board signify in manner aforesaid their disapproval thereof, such regulation shall immediately cease to be of any force or effect.

30. The Institute shall once every year in the month of March transmit to the Board a report stating the number of applications for registration which have been made in the preceding twelve months, the nature and results of the final examinations which have been held, and the amount of fees received by the Institute under these Rules, and such other matters in relation to the provisions of these Rules as the Board may from time to time require.

31. These Rules shall come into operation from and immediately after the 31st December, 1907, and all general rules relative to the Register of Patent Agents in force on the 31st December, 1907, shall be and are hereby repealed as from that date without prejudice nevertheless to any thing done under such Rules or to any application or other matter then pending.

Dated the 17th day of December, 1907.

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FORM 2.

FORM OF STATUTORY DECLARATION.

PATENTS AND DESIGNS ACT, 1907.

Register of Patent Agents pursuant to Section 84.

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1. That prior to the 24th December, 1888, I had been bonâ fide practising in the United Kingdom as a patent agent.

2. That I acted as patent agent in obtaining the following patents:[Give the official numbers and dates of some patents for the United Kingdom in the obtaining of which the declarant acted as patent agent.]

3. That I desire to be registered as a patent agent in pursuance of the said Act.

And I make this solemn declaration conscientiously believing the same to be true and by virtue of the provisions of the Statutory Declarations Act, 1835.

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Interpretation.

STATUTORY RULES AND ORDERS, 1907.
No. 949.

DESIGNS.

THE DESIGNS RULES, 1908. DATED DECEMBER 17, 1907.

By virtue of the provisions of the Patents and Designs Act, 1907, hereinafter referred to as "the Act," the Board of Trade do hereby make the following Rules :

PRELIMINARY.

1. These Rules may be cited as the Designs Rules, 1908, and shall come into operation from and immediately after the 31st day of December, 1907.

INTERPRETATION.

2. In the construction of these Rules any words herein used, the meaning of which is defined by the Act, shall have the meanings thereby assigned to them respectively.

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Agent means an agent resident or having a place of business in the United Kingdom or the Isle of Man, duly authorised to the satisfaction of the comptroller.

"Office means the Patent Office, Designs Branch, 25, Southampton Buildings, London, W.C.

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means the Illustrated Official Journal (Patents). Specimen means an article of manufacture or a substance with the design applied to it.

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'Lodged" means left at the Office or sent through the post by a prepaid letter addressed to the comptroller at the Office.

Fees.

FEES.

3. The fees to be paid in pursuance of the Act, so far as it relates to designs, shall be the fees specified in the First Schedule hereto.

FORMS.

4. The forms herein referred to are the forms contained in the Forms. Second Schedule hereto, and such forms shall be used in all cases to which they are applicable and shall be modified as directed by the comptroller to meet other cases.

SETS OF ARTICLES.

5. "Set" means a number of articles of the same general Sets of articles. character ordinarily on sale together, or intended to be used together, all bearing the same design with or without modifications not sufficient to alter the character or not substantially affecting the identity thereof.

Where there is any doubt whether given articles do or do not constitute a set, the doubt shall be determined by the comptroller.

CLASSIFICATION OF GOODS.

6. For the purposes of the registration of designs and of these Classification Rules, goods are classified in the manner appearing in the Third of goods. Schedule hereto.

If any doubt arises as to the class to which any particular description of goods belongs, it shall be determined by the comptroller.

DOCUMENTS.

7. Subject to any other directions that may be given by the Size, &c., of comptroller, all applications, notices, papers having representations documents. affixed, and other documents required by the Act or by these Rules to be lodged shall be upon strong paper, and, except where otherwise required, on one side only, of a size of approximately 13 inches by 8 inches, and having on the left-hand part thereof a margin of approximately two inches.

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8. A document lodged by a firm or partnership may be signed Signature of in the firm's name or for and on behalf of the firm or partnership by any one or more members thereof. A document lodged by a body corporate may be signed by a director or by the secretary or other principal officer of such body corporate.

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9. Any application, statement, notice or other document Service of authorised or required to be lodged or to be left, made or given with or to any person under the Act or these Rules may be sent through the post by a prepaid or official paid letter; any document so sent shall be deemed to have been delivered at the time when the letter containing the same would be delivered in the ordinary course of post, and in proving such service or sending, it shall be sufficient to prove that the letter was properly addressed and put into the post.

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