this Act; but a Committee or an Arbitrator may, if they or he think fit, submit any question of law for the decision of the Judge of the County Court, and the decision of the Judge on any question of law, either on such submission, or in any case where he himself settles the matter under this Act, or where he gives any decision or makes any order under this Act, shall be final, unless within the time and in accordance with the conditions prescribed by rules of the Supreme Court either party appeals to the Court of Appeal; and the Judge of the County Court, or the Arbitrator appointed by him, shall, for the purpose of proceedings under this Act, have the same powers of procuring the attendance of witnesses and the production of documents as if the proceedings were an action in the County Court. 5. A Judge of County Courts may, if he thinks fit, summon a medical referee to sit with him as an assessor. 6. Rules of Court may make provision for the appearance in any arbitration under this Act of any party by some other person. 7. The costs of and incidental to the arbitration and proceedings connected therewith shall be in the discretion of the Committee, Arbitrator, or Judge of the County Court, subject as respects such Judge and an Arbitrator appointed by him to rules of Court. The costs, whether before a Committee or an Arbitrator or in the County Court, shall not exceed the limit prescribed by rules of Court, and shall be taxed in manner prescribed by those rules, and such taxation may be reviewed by the Judge of the County Court. 8. In the case of the death, or refusal or inability to act, of an Arbitrator, the Judge of the County Court may, on the application of any party, appoint a new Arbitrator. 9. Where the amount of compensation under this Act has been ascertained, or any weekly payment varied, or any other matter decided under this Act, either by a Committee, or by an Arbitrator, or by agreement, a memorandum thereof shall be sent, in manner prescribed by rules of Court, by the Committee or Arbitrator, or by any party interested, to the Registrar of the County Court, who shall, subject to such rules, on being satisfied as to its genuineness, record such memorandum in a special register without fee, and thereupon the memorandum shall for all purposes be enforceable as a County Court judgment. Provided that (a.) No such memorandum shall be recorded before seven days after the despatch by the Registrar of notice to the parties interested; and (b.) Where a workman seeks to record a memorandum of agreement between his employer and himself for the payment of compensation under this Act, and the employer, in accordance with rules of Court, proves that the workman has in fact returned to work and is earning the same wages as he did before the accident, and objects to the recording of such memorandum, the memorandum shall only be recorded, if at all, on such terms as the Judge of the County Court, under the circumstances may think just; and (e.) The Judge of the County Court may at any time rectify the register; and (d.) Where it appears to the Registrar of the County Court, on any information which he considers sufficient, that an agreement as to the redemption of a weekly payment by a lump sum, or an agreement as to the amount of compensation payable to a person under any legal disability, or to dependants, ought not to be registered by reason of the inadequacy of the sum or amount, or by reason of the agreement having been obtained by fraud or undue influence, or other improper means, he may refuse to record the memorandum of the agreement sent to him for registration, and refer the inatter to the Judge, who shall, in accordance with rules of Court, make such order (including an order as to any sum already paid under the agreement) as under the circumstances he may think just; and (e.) The Judge may, within six months after a memorandum of an agreement as to the redemption of a weekly payment by a lump sum, or of an agreement as to the amount of compensation payable to a person under any legal disability, or to dependants, has been recorded in the register, order that the record be removed from the register on proof to his satisfaction that the agreement was obtained by fraud or undue influence or other improper means, and may make such order (including an order as to any sum already paid under the agreement) as under the circumstances he may think just. 10. An agreement as to the redemption of a weekly payment by a lump sum if not registered in accordance with this Act shall not, nor shall the payment of the sum payable under the agreement, exempt the person by whom the weekly payment is payable from liability to continue to make that weekly payment, and an agreement as to the amount of compensation to be paid to a person under a legal disability or to dependants, if not so registered, shall not, nor shall the payment of the sum payable under the agreement, exempt the person by whom the compensation is payable from liability to pay compensation, unless in either case he proves that the failure to register was not due to any neglect or default on his part. 11. Where any matter under this Act is to be done in a County Court, or by, to, or before the Judge or Registrar of a County Court, then, unless the contrary intention appear, the same shall, subject to rules of Court, be done in, or by, to, or before the Judge or Registrar of the County Court of the district in which all the parties concerned reside, or if they reside in different districts, the district prescribed by rules of Court, without prejudice to any transfer in manner provided by rules of Court. 12. The duty of a Judge of County Courts under this Act, or in England of an Arbitrator appointed by him, shall, subject to rules of Court, be part of the duties of the County Court, and the officers of the Court shall act accordingly; and rules of Court may be made both for any purpose for which this Act authorizes rules of Court to be made, and also generally for carrying into effect this Act so far as it affects the County Court, or an Arbitrator appointed by the Judge of the County Court, and proceedings in the County Court or before any such Arbitrator, and such rules may, in England, be made by the five Judges of County Courts appointed for the making of rules under section 164 of "The County Courts Act, 1888," and when allowed by the Lord Chancellor, as provided by that section, shall have full effect without any further consent. 13. No Court fee, except such as may be prescribed under paragraph 15 of the First Schedule to this Act, shall be payable by any party in respect of any proceedings by or against a workman under this Act in the Court prior to the award. 14. Any sum awarded as compensation shall, unless paid into Court under this Act, be paid on the receipt of the person to whom it is payable under any agreement or award, and the solicitor or agent of a person claiming compensation under this Act shall not be entitled to recover from him any costs in respect of any proceedings in an arbitration under this Act, or to claim a lien in respect of such costs on, or deduct such costs from, the sum awarded or agreed as compensation, except such sum as may be awarded by the Committee, the Arbitrator, or the Judge of the County Court, on an application made either by the person claiming compensation, or by his solicitor or agent, to determine the amount of costs to be paid to the solicitor or agent, such sum to be awarded subject to taxation and to the scale of costs prescribed by rules of Court. 15. Any Committee, Arbitrator, or Judge may, subject to regulations made by the Secretary of State and the Treasury, submit to a medical referee for report any matter which seems material to any question arising in the arbitration. 16. The Secretary of State may, by order, either unconditionally or subject to such conditions or modifications as he may think fit, confer on any Committee, representative of an employer and his workmen, as respects any matter in which the Committee act as Arbitrators, or which is settled by agreement submitted to and approved by the Committee, all or any of the powers conferred by this Act exclusively on County Courts or Judges of County Courts, and may by the order provide how and to whom the compensation money is to be paid in cases where, but for the order, the money would be required to be paid into Court, and the order may exclude from the operation of provisoes (d) and (e) of paragraph 9 of this Schedule agreements submitted to and approved by the Committee, and may contain such incidental, consequential, or supplemental provisions as may appear to the Secretary of State to be necessary or proper for the purposes of the order. 17. In the application of this Schedule to Scotland (a.) "County Court judgment," as used in paragraph 9 of this Schedule, means a recorded decree arbitral; (b.) Any application to the Sheriff as Arbitrator shall be heard, tried, and determined summarily in the manner provided by section 52 of "The Sheriff Courts (Scotland) Act, 1876,"* save only that parties may be represented by any person authorized in writing to appear for them and subject to the declaration that it shall be competent to either party within the time and in accordance with the conditions prescribed by act of sederunt to require the Sheriff to state a case on any question of law determined by him, and his decision thereon in such case may be submitted to either division of the Court of Session, who may hear and determine the same and remit to the Sheriff with instruction as to the judgment to be pronounced, and an appeal shall lie from either of such divisions to the House of Lords; (c) Paragraphs 3, 4, and 8 shall not apply. 18. In the application of this Schedule to Ireland the expression "Judge of the County Court" shall include the Recorder of any city or town, and an appeal shall lie from the Court of Appeal to the House of Lords. Description of Disease. THIRD SCHEdule. Section 8. Description of Process. Anthrax .. Lead poisoning or its sequelæ Phosphorus sequelæ poisoning or its Handling of wool, hair, bristles, hides, Any process involving the use of lead or Arsenic poisoning or its sequelæ.. Any process involving the use of arsenic or its preparations or compounds. Mining. Ankylostomiasis Where regulations or special rules made under any Act of Parliament for the protection of persons employed in any industry against the risk of contracting lead poisoning require some or all of the persons employed in * 39 & 10 Vict., c. 70. certain processes specified in the regulations or special rules to be periodi cally examined by a certifying or other surgeon, then, in the application of this Schedule to that industry, the expression "process" shall, unless the Secretary of State otherwise directs, include only the processes so specified. ACT of the British Parliament to Consolidate the Enactments relating to Patents for Inventions and the Registration of Designs and certain Enactments relating to Trade-marks. [7 Edw. VII, c. 29.] [August 28, 1907.] BE it enacted by the King's Most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows: Part 1.-PATENTS. Application for and Grant of Patent. 1.-(1.) An application for a patent may be made by any person who claims to be the true and first inventor of an invention, whether he is a British subject or not, and whether alone or jointly with any other person. (2.) The application must be made in the prescribed form, and must be left at, or sent by post to, the Patent Office in the prescribed manner. (3.) The application must contain a declaration to the effect that the applicant is in possession of an invention whereof he, or, in the case of a joint application, one at least of the applicants, claims to be the true and first inventor, and for which he desires to obtain a patent, and must be accompanied by either a provisional or complete specification. (4.) The declaration required by this section may be either a statutory declaration or not, as may be prescribed. Specifications. 2.-(1.) A provisional specification must describe the nature of the invention. (2.) A complete specification must particularly describe and ascertain the nature of the invention and the manner in which the same is to be performed. (3.) In the case of any provisional or complete specification, where the Comptroller deems it desirable, he may require that suitable drawings shall be supplied with the specification, or at any time before the acceptance of the same, and such drawings shall be deemed to form part of the said specification. (4.) A specification, whether provisional or complete, must commence with the title, and, in the case of a complete specification, must end with a distinct statement of the invention claimed. (5.) Where the invention in respect of which an application is made is a chemical invention, such typical samples and specimens as may be prescribed shall, if in any particular case the Comptroller considers it desirable so to require, be furnished before the acceptance of the complete specification. Proceedings upon Application. 3.—(1.) The Comptroller-General of Patents, Designs, and Trade-marks (hereinafter referred to as the Comptroller ") shall refer every application to an examiner. (2.) If the examiner reports that the nature of the invention is not fairly described, or that the application, specification, or drawings have not been prepared in the prescribed manner, or that the title does not sufficiently indicate the subject-matter of the invention, the Comptroller may refuse to accept the application, or require that the application, specification, or drawings be amended before he proceeds with the application; and in the latter case the application shall, if the Comptroller so directs, bear date as from the time when the requirement is complied with. (3.) Where the Comptroller refuses to accept an application or requires an amendment, the applicant may appeal from his decision to the law officer, who shall, if required, hear the applicant and the Comptroller, and may make an order deter. mining whether and subject to what conditions (if any) the application shall be accepted. (4.) The Comptroller shall, when an application has been accepted, give notice thereof to the applicant. Provisional Protection. 4. Where an application for a patent in respect of an invention has been accepted, the invention may, during the period between the date of the application and the date of sealing such patent, be used and published without prejudice to the patent to be granted for the invention; and such protection from the consequences of use and publication is in this Act referred to as "provisional protection." Time for Leaving complete Specification. 5.-(1.) If the applicant does not leave a complete specification with his application, he may leave it at any subsequent time within six months from the date of the application: Provided that, where an application is made for an extension of the time for leaving a complete specification, the Comptroller |