Despite the increase of agricultural production during the war, the population of these islands is still dangerously dependent upon the supplies of food from Overseas, and the financial burden of purchasing such supplies in foreign markets against an adverse rate of exchange is very great. Uneasiness has also been caused by the unprecedented sale of landed property since the war. Measures will accordingly be proposed to mitigate any hardship which this operation may cause to the occupier, and to stimulate and develop the production of essential foodstuffs within the United Kingdom. A Bill will also be introduced to encourage and develop the Fishing Industry. A Bill will also be submitted to you for the after-war organisation of the regular and territorial armies and for regulating the navigation of the air. Among other important Bills which you will be invited to pass are measures dealing with insurance against unemployment, the regulation of hours of employment, and the establishment of a minimum rate of wage, and with the amendment of the Health Insurance Acts. Bills will also be introduced providing against the injury to national industries from dumping and for the creation of an adequate supply of cheap electrical and water power. Proposals will also be laid before you during the present Session dealing with the Reform of the Second Chamber, and it is hoped that time will permit of their being passed into law. And I pray that Almighty God may bestow His blessing upon your deliberations. BRITISH ORDER IN COUNCIL applying the provisions of Section 91 of "The Patents and Designs Act, 1907," as amended by the Patents and Designs Acts, 1914 and 1919, to Czecho-Slovakia.-London, March 11, 1920.* At the Court at Buckingham Palace, the 11th day of March, 1920. PRESENT: THE KING'S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY IN COUNCIL. WHEREAS by Section 91 of The Patents and Designs Act, 1907 (7 Edw. 7, c. 29), as amended by "The Patents and Designs Act, 1914 " (4 and 5 Geo. 5, c. 18), and "The * "London Gazette," March 12, 1920. Vol. CVIII, page 17. + Vol. CI, page 28. Patents and Designs Act, 1919 '* (9 and 10 Geo. V, c. 80), it is enacted as follows: 91.-(1.) If His Majesty is pleased to make any arrangement with the Government of any foreign State for mutual protection of inventions, or designs, or trade marks, then any person who has applied for protection for any invention, design or trade mark in that State, or his legal representative or assignee, shall be entitled to a patent for his invention or to registration of his design or trade mark under this Act or The Trade Marks Act, 1905,'t in priority to other applicants; and the patent or registration shall have the same date as the date of the application in the foreign State. Provided that (a.) The application is made in the case of a patent within twelve months, and in the case of a design or trade mark within four months, from the application for protection in the foreign State; and (b.) Nothing in this section shall entitle the patentee or proprietor of the design or trade mark to recover damages for infringements happening prior to the actual date on which his complete specification is accepted, or his design or trade mark is registered, in this country. 44 (2.) The patent granted for the invention or the registration of a design or trade mark shall not be invalidated: (a.) In the case of a patent, by reason only of the publication of a description of, or use of, the invention; or (b.) In the case of a design, by reason only of the exhibition or use of, or the publication of a description or representation of, the design; or (c.) In the case of a trade mark, by reason only of the use of the trade mark; in the United Kingdom or the Isle of Man during the period specified in this section as that within which the application may be made. 44 (3.) The application for the grant of a patent, or the registration of a design, or the registration of a trade mark under this section must be made in the same manner as an ordinary application under this Act or The Trade Marks Act, 1905: "Provided that "(a.) In the case of patents the application shall be accompanied by a complete specification, which, if it is not accepted within the twelve months from the application for protection in the foreign State, shall with the drawings (if any) be open to public inspection at the expiration of that period; and * Vol. CXII, page 641. + Vol. XCVIII, page 15. (b.) In the case of trade marks, any trade mark the registration of which has been duly applied for in the country of origin may be registered under The Trade Marks Act, 1905.' (4.) The provisions of this section shall apply only in the case of those foreign States with respect to which His Majesty by Order in Council declares them to be applicable, and so long only in the case of each State as the Order in Council continues in force with respect to that State. (5.) Where it is made to appear to His Majesty that the legislature of any British Possession has made satisfactory provision for the protection of inventions, designs, or trade marks, patented or registered in this country, it shall be lawful for His Majesty, by Order in Council, to apply the provisions of this section to that Possession, with such variations or additions, if any, as may be stated in the Order"; 66 And whereas by Section 103 of "The Patents, Designs and Trade Marks Act, 1883," as amended by Section 6 of "The Patents, Designs and Trade Marks Act (Amendment) Act, 1885," and by Section 1 of "The Patents Act, 1901," and since repealed by Section 98 of the said Patents and Designs Act, 1907," provisions were made to the same or like effect as those above set forth as contained in Section 91 of the last-mentioned Act, and by the said Section 98 it was provided that "this repeal shall not affect any Convention, Order in Council, Rule or table of fees, having effect under any enactment so repealed, but any such Convention, Order in Council, Rule or table of fees in force at the commencement of this Act shall continue in force, and may be repealed, altered or amended, as if it had been made under this Act"; And whereas it pleased Her late Majesty Queen Victoria to make an arrangement of the nature contemplated by the said Section 103, by and in virtue of a Declaration signed and sealed by Her Majesty's Ambassador at Paris, on the 17th March, 1884,* duly conveying the accession of Great Britain and Ireland to the International Convention and Protocol for the protection of Industrial Property, signed by Representatives of certain Powers, on the 20th March, 1883, t and duly ratified on the 6th June, 1884, power being reserved to Her Majesty to accede thereafter to the provisions of the said Convention and Protocol on behalf of the Isle of Man, the Channel Islands, and any of Her Majesty's Possessions, which Declaration of Accession was duly accepted by the French Government on behalf of the * Vol. LXXV, page 414. + Vol. LXXIV, pages 44 and 49. Signatory Powers by and in virtue of a Declaration dated the 2nd April, 1884; And whereas on the 14th December, 1900,* at Brussels, an Additional Act was agreed upon between Her late Majesty Queen Victoria and the Heads of the foreign countries parties thereto for the purpose of modifying certain of the provisions of the said International Convention and the Protocol annexed thereto, the ratification of which Additional Act was duly effected; And whereas by a Convention signed at Washington on the 2nd June, 1911, His Majesty and the Heads of the foreign States named therein agreed to make certain modifications in and additions to the said Convention dated the 20th March, 1883, as revised at Brussels on the 14th December, 1900, the ratification of which Convention was duly effected by Great Britain and certain other States; And whereas by various Orders in Council Her late Majesty Queen Victoria and His late Majesty King Edward VII and His present Majesty have been pleased to declare that the hereinbefore-mentioned provisions of the said "Patents, Designs and Trade Marks Act, 1883" (as amended), should apply to the several foreign countries named in the said Orders parties to the said Convention and Protocols; And whereas Czecho-Slovakia has acceded to the said International Convention Protocol and Additional Act as revised at Washington on the 2nd June, 1911: Now, therefore, His Majesty, in pursuance of the powers in him vested by the above-recited provisions, and by and with the advice of his Privy Council, doth declare, and it is hereby declared, as follows: 1. The provisions of Section 91 of "The Patents and Designs Act, 1907," as amended by "The Patents and Designs Act, 1914," and "The Patents and Designs Act, 1919," shall apply to Czecho-Slovakia. 2. This Order shall take effect from the 20th October, 1919. ALMERIC FITZROY. * Vol. XCII, page 807. [cxIII] Vol. CIV, page 116. BRITISH ORDER IN COUNCIL providing for the Administration of the Islands of Western Samoa in the Government of the Dominion of New Zealand.-London, March 11, 1920.* At the Court at Buckingham Palace, the 11th day of March, 1920. PRESENT: THE KING'S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY. Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster. Lord Chamberlain. Sir Frederick Ponsonby. WHEREAS by the Treaty of Peace between the Allied and Associated Powers and Germany signed at Versailles on the 28th day of June, 1919, Germany renounced, in favour of the Principal Allied and Associated Powers, all her right and title over the islands of Western Samoa; And whereas it has been agreed between the Principal Allied and Associated Powers that the said islands shall be administered by His Majesty in his government of his Dominion of New Zealand, subject to, and in accordance with the provisions of the said Treaty; And whereas by treaty, capitulation, grant, usage, sufferance, and other lawful means, His Majesty the King has jurisdiction in the said islands, and it is expedient to determine the mode of exercising such jurisdiction: Now, therefore, His Majesty, by virtue of the powers by "The Foreign Jurisdiction Act, 1890," or otherwise in His Majesty vested, is pleased, by and with the advice of his Privy Council, to order, and it is hereby ordered, as follows:1. This Order may be cited as The Western Samoa Order in Council, 1920.” 2. The limits of this Order are the islands of Opolu and Savaii in the South Pacific Ocean, together with the islands adjacent thereto situated between the thirteenth and fourteenth degrees of south latitude and the one hundred and seventy-first and one hundred and seventy-third degrees west longitude. The said islands shall be known as the territory of Western Samoa and shall not be deemed to be included within the limits of The Pacific Order in Council, 1893,''§ and any Orders amending the same. + Vol. CXII, page 1. * "London Gazette," March 12, 1920. |