STATUTORY RULES AND ORDERS, 1914.
No. 1327.
DESIGNS.
The Designs (Temporary) Rules, 1914. Dated
September 5, 1914.
By virtue of the provisions of the Patents, Designs and
Trade Marks (Temporary Rules) Acts, 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 of the
registration and all or any rights conferred by the registration
of any Design the proprietor whereof is 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 proprietor 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 goods or any of them
in respect of which the Design is registered ;
(c) That it is in the general interests of the country or of a
section of the community, or of a trade, that the
avoidance or suspension should be ordered.
The fee to be paid on any such application shall be that
specified in the First Schedule to these Rules.
An application under this section must be made on Form
Designs 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 dis
cretion, revoke any avoidance or suspension ordered by them-