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Patents, Designs, and Trade Marks (Temporary 
Rules) Act, 1914. 
An Act to extend the powers of the Board of Trade during 
the continuance of the present hostilities to make Rules under 
the Patents and Designs Act, 1907, and the Trade Marks 
Act, 1905. [7th August, 1914.] 
Be it enacted by the King’s most Excellent Majesty, by and 
with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Tem 
poral, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, 
and by the authority of the same, as follows :— 
Extension of Power to Make Rules.—7 Edw. vii. c. 29. 
5 Edw. vii. c. 15. 
1. —(1) The power of the Board of Trade under Section 86 
of the Patents and Designs Act, 1907, and Section 60 of the 
Trade Marks Act, 1905, to make rules and to do such things 
as they think expedient for the purposes therein mentioned, 
shall include power to make rules and to do such things as 
they think expedient for avoiding or suspending in whole or 
in part any Patent or licence granted to, and the registration 
of any Trade Mark, the proprietor whereof is a subject of 
any State at war with His Majesty, and any proceedings on 
any application made by any such person under either of the 
said Acts, and for extending the time within which any act 
or thing may or is required to be done under those Acts. 
(2) In relation to rules made under this Act the provisions 
of Sub-section (3) of Section 60 of the Trade Marks Act, 1905, 
shall not apply. 
(3) If the rules made under this Act so provide the rules or 
any of them shall have effect as from the passing of this Act. 
Short Title. 
2. —This Act may be cited as the Patents, Designs, and 
Trade Marks (Temporary Rules) Act, 1914. 
Duration. 
3. —This Act and the rules made thereunder shall continue 
in force during the continuance of the present state of war in 
Europe, and for a period of six months thereafter and no longer.