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STATUTORY RULES AND ORDERS, 1914. 
No. 1255. 
PATENTS, DESIGNS, AND TRADE MARKS. 
Patents, Designs and Trade Marks (Temporary) Rules, 
1914. Dated 21st August, 1914. 
By virtue of the provisions of the Patents, Designs and 
Trade Marks (Temporary Rules) Act, 1914, the Board of 
Trade hereby make the following Rules:— 
1. The Board of Trade may, on the application of any 
Person, and subject to such terms and conditions, if any, as 
they may think fit, order the avoidance or suspension, in 
whole or in part, of any Patent or Licence granted to a subject 
of any State at war with His Majesty, and the Board, before 
granting any such application, may require to be satisfied on 
the following heads :— 
(a) That the patentee or licensee is the subject of a State 
at war with His Majesty ; 
(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; 
(c) That it is in the general interests of the country or of a 
section of the community, or of a trade, that such 
article should be manufactured or such process 
carried on as aforesaid. 
The fee to be paid on any such application shall be that 
specified in the First Schedule to these Rules and the fee 
Payable on depositing foreign documents or other papers for 
the purpose of a record not already provided for under the 
Patents and Designs Act, 1907, and the Trade Marks Act, 
1905, shall be that specified in the First Schedule to these 
Rules. 
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