HC Deb 19 May 1938 vol 336 c703

9.34 p.m.

The Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Trade (Mr. Cross)

I beg to move, in page 10, line 4, at the end, to insert: Eight A.—In paragraphs (a) and (b) the word" foregoing "shall be omitted. Under Clause 6 of the Bill there is a provision for an appeal to the Appeal Tribunal against any refusal by the Comptroller to accept an application for a patent, or to accept a specification, on the ground of non-compliance with any requirement of Section 91. It will be agreed that any such appeal should produce the same extension of time for the acceptance of the complete specification as appeals under any of the provisions of the Act which are referred to in Section 8A as "the foregoing provisions of this Act." It will be seen that the best way of doing this is to delete the word "foregoing" in the two places where it occurs.

Amendment agreed to.

Bill read the Third time, and passed, with Amendments.