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fönen,  die  den  genannten  Staaten  angehören,  oder  für
solche  oder  zu  ihren  Gunsten  betrieben  werden,
so  wird  hiemit  folgendes  verordnet:
1.  In  dieser  Verordnung  bedeutet:
a)  „feindlicher  Ausländer"  jede  Person  deutscher
oder  österreichisch-ungarischer  Staatsangehörigkeit, ­

b)  „Liquidationsausschuß"  solche  Personen,  die
zur  Liquidierung  der  Geschäfte  feindlicher
Ausländer  berufen  sind.
2.  Vom  Tage  dieser  Verordnung  ab  ist  in  der
Kolonie  unbedingt  jede  Ausführung  von  Geschäften
durch  feindliche  Ausländer,  für  solche  oder  zu  ihren
Gunsten  verboten,  insoweit  es  nach  Ermeffen  des  Liquidationsausschusses
  nicht  für  die  Liquidierung  der  Geschäfte ­
  selbst  erforderlich  sein  sollte.
3.  Alle  Geschäfte,  die  nach  vorstehendem  bisher
von  feindlichen  Ausländern,  für  solche  oder  zu  ihren
Gunsten  betrieben  worden  sind,  sind  sobald  als  möglich
und  durchführbar  von  dem  Liquidationsausschuß  oder
unter  seiner  Oberaufsicht  und  Überwachung  zu  liquidieren.
4.  Die  Vermögensmassen  der  so  aufgelösten  Geschäfte ­
  sind  von  dem  Liquidakiousausschufse  zu  sammeln,
bis  darüber  durch  Anweisung  des  Gouverneurs  Verfügung ­
  getroffen  wird.
(Trinidad,  and  Tobago  Gazette  Extraordinary  vom
31.  Oktober  1914.)
(Nachrichten  für  Handel,  Industrie  und  Landwirtschaft
Nr.  31,  vom  24.  April  1915.)
Australischer  Staateubuud.
Talents.  War  Measures,  Statutory  R  u  1  e
No.  174.  Effective  N  o  v.  19,  1914,
Provisional  Regulations  und  er  tbe  Patents  Act  1903-1909,
  and  the  Patents,  Trade  Marks  and  Designs
Acts  1914.
I,  Sir  Arthur  Stanley,  the  duly-appointed  Depnty
of  the  Governor-General,  in  accordance  with  the  provisions
  of  the  Constitution,  acting  with  the  ad  vice  of
the  Federal  Executive  Council,  hereby  certify  that,  on
account  of  urgency,  the  following  Regulations  ander
the  Patents  Act  1903-1909  and  the  Patents,
Trade  Marks  and  Designs  Acts  1914
should  come  into  Operation  as  from  the  date  of  the
commencement  of  the  Patents,  Trade  Marks
and  Designs  Acts  1914,  und  make  the  Regulations ­
  to  come  into  Operation  as  from  that  date  as
Provisional  Regulations.
Dated  this  third  day  of  December,  One  thousand
nine  hundred  and  fourteen.
Patents  (Temporary)  regulations.
Statutory  Rules  1914.  No.  174.
1.  These  Regulations  may  be  cited  as  the  Patents
(Temporary)  Regulations  1914.
2.  In  these  Regulations—
„Person  means“  and  includes.  in  addition  to  the
meaning  thereto  given  by  section  twenty-two  of  the

Acts  Interpretation  Act  1901,  any  Department ­
  of  the  Government  of  the  Commonwealth  or  of
a  State.
3.  (1)  Tne  Minister  may,  on  the  application  of
any  person,  and  subject  to  such  terms  and  conditions.
if  any,  as  he  thinks  fit,  Order  the  avoidance  or  Suspension, ­
  in  whole  or  in  pari,  of  any  patent  or  licence
the  person  entitled  to  the  benefit  of  which  is  a  subject
of  any  State  at  war  with  the  King,  and  the  Minister,
befere  granting  any  such  application,  may  require  to
be  satisfied  on  the  following  heads:  —
(a)  That  the  patentee  or  licensee  is  a  subject  of  a
State  at  war  with  the  King;
(b)  That  the  person  applying  intends  to  manufacture,
or  cause  to  be  manufactured,  the  patented  article,
or  to  carry  on,  or  cause  to  be  carried  on,  the
patented  process;  and
(c)  That  it  is  in  the  general  Interests  of  the  Commonwealth ­
  or  of  a  section  of  the  Community,  or  of
a  trade,  that  such  article  should  be  manufactured
or  such  process  carried  on  as  aforesaid^
(2)  The  fee  to  be  paid  on  any  such  application
shall  be  that  specified  in  the  First  Schedule  to  these
Regulations.
(3)  An  application  ander  this  Regulation  shall
be  in  accordance  with  the  form  in  the  Second  Schedule
to  these  Regulations,  and  shall  be  filed  at  the  Patent
Office.
4.  (1)  The  Minister  may,  at  any  time,  in  bis
absolute  discretion,  revoke  any  avoidance  or  Suspension ­
  of  any  patent  or  licence  ordered  by  him.
(2)  For  1he  purpose  of  exercising  in  any  case  the
powers  of  avoiding  or  suspending  a  patent  or  licence,
the  Minister  may  appoint  such  person  or  persons  as
he  thinks  fit  to  hold  an  inquiry.
(3)  Any  application  to  the  Minister  for  the  avoidance ­
  or  Suspension  of  any  patent  or  licence  may
be  referred  for  hearing  and  inquiry  to  such  person  or
persons  as  aforesaid,  who  shall  report  thereon  to  the
Minister.
5.  Notwithstanding  anything  in  these  Regulations
contained,  the  Minister  may,  at  any  time,  if  in  his
absolute  discretion  he  deems  it  expedient  in  the
public  Interest  so  to  do,  order  the  avoidance  or  Suspension ­
  in  whole  or  in  pari  of  any  such  patent  or
licence  upon  such  terms  and  conditions,  if  any,  as  he
thinks  fit.
6.  In  any  case  in  which  the  Minister  makes  an
order  in  pursuance  of  the  Patents,  Trade  Marks
and  Designs  Acts  1914  avoiding  or  suspending
a  patent  in  whole  or  in  pari,  the  Minister  may,  in  his
discretion,  grant  in  favour  of  persons,  other  than  the
subject  of  any  State  at  war  with  the  King,  licences  to
make  use,  exercise  or  vend  the  patented  Invention  so
avoided  or  suspended  upon  such  terms  and  conditions,
and  either  for  the  whole  term  of  the  patent  or  for
such  less  period  as  the  Minister  thinks  fit.
7.  The  Minister  may,  at  any  time  during  the  continnance
  of  these  Regulations,  direct  the  Commissioner