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Walter Runciman, 
President of the Board of Trade. 
For the purpose of exercising in any case the powers of 
avoiding or suspending the registration of a Trade Mark the 
Board of Trade may appoint such person or persons as they shall 
think fit to hold an enquiry. 
Any application to the Board for the avoidance or sus 
pension of any registration of a Trade Mark may be referred 
for hearing and inquiry to such person or persons who shall 
report thereon to the Board. 
Provided always that the Board of Trade may at any time, 
if in their absolute discretion they deem it expedient in the 
public interest, order the avoidance or suspension in whole or 
in part of any such registration of a Trade Mark upon such 
terms and conditions, if any, as they may think fit. 
2. The term “ person ” used in these Rules shall, in addition 
to the meaning given thereto by Section 19 of the Interpre 
tation Act, 1889, include any Government Department. 
3. All things required or authorised to be done by, to, or 
before the Board of Trade may be done by, to, or before the 
President or a Secretary or an Assistant Secretary of the 
Board, or any person authorised in that behalf by the Presi 
dent of the Board. 
All documents purporting to be Orders made by the Board 
of Trade and to be sealed with the seal of the Board or to be 
signed by a Secretary or an Assistant Secretary of the Board 
or by any person authorised in that behalf by the President 
of the Board shall be received in evidence and shall be deemed 
to be such Orders without further proof unless the contrary is 
shown. 
A certificate signed by the President of the Board of Trade 
that any Order made or act done is the Order or act of the 
Board shall be conclusive evidence of the fact so certified. 
4. These Rules shall be called the Trade Marks (Temporary) 
Rules, 1914, and shall come into operation as and from the 
Seventh day of August, 1914. 
Dated the 21st day of August, 1914.