paragraphs 2, 3, and 7 of the First Schedule of the Fire and Marine Insurance Companies Ordinance shall, within the limits of this Order, be exercised by the Minister.

(3.) All offences under the Fire and Marine Insurance Companies Ordinance made punishable by fine may, if committed within the limits of this Order, be prosecuted summarily under Article 48 of "The China Order in Council, 1904," provided that the maximum fine which can be imposed in the case of offences tried summarily shall be 2001. instead of 201.

8. All fees prescribed by or under the Fire and Marine Insurance Companies Ordinance which are paid to the Registrar of Companies at Shanghai shall be paid by him to the Colonial Treasurer at Hong Kong.

9. This Order shall come into effect on the 1st day of January, 1920.

And the Right Honourable Arthur James Balfour, O.M., one of His Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State, is to give the necessary directions herein.

ALMERIC FITZROY.

BRITISH REGULATIONS amending Regulation 6 of "The Naturalisation Regulations, 1914" (Form of Declaration of Alienage).-London, October 18, 1919.

Ix the exercise of the powers conferred upon me by The British Nationality and Status of Aliens Act, 1914,"* and of all other powers enabling me in that behalf I, the Right Honourable Edward Shortt, one of His Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State, hereby make the following Regulations:

1. The following words shall be inserted after the words. "naturalised as a British subject" in Regulation 6 of "The Naturalisation Regulations, 1914" (which relates to the form of declarations of alienage):

"(or being the wife of A.B., a person whose certificate of naturalisation has been revoked within six months before the present date, and being also the mother of the following minor children of the marriage of the said A.B. and myself, namely, )."

2. Copies of "The Naturalisation Regulations, 1914," printed after the date of these Regulations under the authority

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of H.M. Stationery Office, may be printed with the insertion of the words which by these Regulations are directed to be inserted.

3. These Regulations may be cited as "The Naturalisation Regulations, 1919."

E. SHORTT,

One of His Majesty's Principal
Secretaries of State.

Whitehall, October 18, 1919.

BRITISH NOTIFICATION relative to the continuance of the Anglo-Belgian Declaration of April 15, 1916, regarding Military Penal Jurisdiction.-London, November 11, 1919.*

War Office, November 11, 1919.

HIS Britannic Majesty's Government and the Government of His Majesty the King of the Belgians agree that the Anglo-Belgian Declaration of the 15th April, 1916, regarding military penal jurisdiction, shall remain in force until a Declaration is made to the contrary.

BRITISH ORDER amending" The Air Navigation Regulations, 1919."-London, November 17, 1919.‡

In pursuance of the powers conferred upon me by “The Air Navigation Acts, 1911 to 1919," and all other powers enabling me in that behalf, I, the Right Honourable Winston Spencer Churchill, one of His Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State, by Order, make the following regulations amending "The Air Navigation Regulations, 1919."§

1. Regulation I of The Air Navigation Regulations, 1919," shall have effect as though the following provisions were substituted for sub-section (7) thereof :—

(7.) The aircraft shall not land in any prohibited area as defined by this Regulation, and shall not fly over such area at a lower altitude than 6,000 feet.

2. Schedule VI of "The Air Navigation Regulations,

1919, shall have effect as though the following were substituted for paragraph 1 thereof:

1. Each of the places named in the following list, as described therein, shall be a prohibited area :

Orkney Islands.--An area enclosed by straight lines joining the following points:-Tor Ness, Rora Head, Inga Ness, Mull Head, Old Head.

Cromarty.-Seven statute miles in all directions from Newball Point (opposite Invergordon).

Firth of Forth.-An area enclosed by straight lines between the following places:-Hill House (one mile south of Dunfermline), Blackness Pier, Dalmeny Church, Inchmickery, Hallcraig Point.

Harwich.-Two statute miles in all directions from Parkeston Pier.

Osea Island.-Three statute miles in all directions from the centre of Osea Island.

Sheerness.-Three statute miles in all directions from Garrison Point, excluding Grain aerodrome and all land belonging thereto.

Chatham.-Three statute miles in all directions from Hoo

Church.

Dover.-Three statute miles in all directions from Dover

Castle.

Portsmouth.-Two and a half statute miles in all directions from Dockyard Clock Tower.

Poole Harbour.-Three statute miles in all directions from Lychett Minster Church.

Portland. Two statute miles in all directions from Portland Castle.

Devonport.-Two statute miles in all directions from a point half a mile north of Stoke Church.

Pembroke. Two statute miles in all directions from Wear Point.

Cork Harbour.-Two statute miles in all directions from Spike Island Fort.

Air Ministry, London,

November 17, 1919.

W. S. CHURCHILL, One of His Majesty's Principal

Secretaries of State.

BRITISH ORDER IN COUNCIL applying the provisions of Section 91 of "The Patents and Designs Act, 1907," to Poland.-London, November 25, 1919.*

At the Court at Buckingham Palace, the 25th day of
November, 1919.

PRESENT: THE KING'S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by Section 91 of "The Patents and Designs Act, 1907," 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 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 Acts, 1905,'‡ 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.

"(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.

(3.) The application for the grant of a patent, or the * "London Gazette," November 25, 1919. + Vol. CI, page 28.

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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

“(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, and 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";

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 (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";

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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