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An application under this section must be made on Patents
Form No. 36 contained in the Second Schedule to these Rules,
and shall be filed at the Patent Office.
The Board of Trade may at any time, in their absolute
discretion, revoke any avoidance or suspension of any Patent
or Licence ordered by them.
For the purpose of exercising in any case the powers of
avoiding or suspending a Patent or Licence, the Board of
Trade may appoint such person or persons as they shall think
fit to hold an inquiry.
Any application to the Board for the avoidance or suspen
sion of any Patent or Licence 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 Patent or Licence upon such terms and
conditions, if any, as they may think fit.
2. The Comptroller may, at any time during the continu
ance of these Rules, avoid or suspend any proceedings on any
application made under the Patents and Designs Act, 1907,
and the Trade Marks Act, 1905, by a subject of any State at
war with His Majesty.
3. The Comptroller may also at any time during the con
tinuance of these Rules extend the time prescribed by the
Patents and Designs Act, 1907, or the Trade Marks Act, 1905,
or any Rules made thereunder, for doing any act or filing any
document, upon such terms and subject to such conditions
as he may think fit in the following cases, namely :—
(а) Where it is shown to his satisfaction that the applicant,
patentee or proprietor, as the case may be, was
prevented from doing the said act, or filing the said
document, by reason of active service, or enforced
absence from this country, or any other circumstances
arising from the present state of war, which, in the
opinion of the Comptroller, would justify such
extension;
(б) Where the doing of any act would, by reason of the
