DESIGNS.

No. 42 of 1934.

An Act to amend the Designs Act 1906–1933.

[Assented to 4th August, 1934.]

BE it enacted by the King’s Most Excellent Majesty, the Senate, and the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Australia, as follows:—

Short title and citation.

1.—(1.) This Act may be cited as the Designs Act 1934.

(2.) The Designs Act 1906–1933 is in this Act referred to as the Principal Act.

(3.) The Principal Act, as amended by this Act, may be cited as the Designs Act 1906–1934.

Classes in which designs may be registered.

2. Section seventeen of the Principal Act is amended by omitting the word “and” inserting in its stead the word “or”.

Duty of owner of registered design.

3. Section twenty-nine of the Principal Act is amended by adding at the end thereof the following sub-section:—

“(3.) Where it appears expedient and in the interests of any trade or industry so to do the Governor-General may make regulations dispensing with or modifying the provisions of sub-section (1.) of this section in its application to any class or description of articles to such extent and subject to such conditions as he thinks fit.”.