HC Deb 17 December 1919 vol 123 c607

(1) This Act may be cited as the Patents and Designs Act, 1919, and the principal Act and this Act may be cited together as the Patents and Designs Acts, 1907 and 1919.

(2) The provisions by Sections one and two of this Act substituted for Sections twenty-seven and twenty-four of the principal Act shall not come into operation until such time, not being later than one year after the passing of this Act, as may be fixed by Order of the Board of Trade. except so far as the provisions so substituted for the said Section twenty-four are by Subsection (2) of Section six of this Act applied to the patents therein mentioned; save as aforesaid this Act shall come into operation on the passing thereof.

Lords Amendment: In Sub-section (2), after the word "mentioned" ["therein mentioned"], insert the words and the provisions of this Act relating to the terms on which an invention or registered design can be made, used or exercised by or on behalf of a Government Department shall not come into operation until such time as may be fixed by order of the Board of Trade.

—Agreed to.