(b)
(c)
(d)
(e)
(f)
(g)
prescribing the tariff of fees which shall be allowed on taxation in
connection with proceedings before the registrar or the commissioner;
prescribing the procedure in any proceedings before the registrar or
the commissioner;
prescribing the service of notices and other documents required in
terms of this Act to be served in connection with proceedings before
the registrar or the commissioner;
providing for the conduct and administration of the patent office,
including the keeping and preservation of any records in the patent
office, the removal from such office and preservation in any other
place of such records, and as to the circumstances in which any such
records may be destroyed;
prescribing the contents of any application, notice or form provided for
in this Act;
as to any other matter required or permitted by this Act to be
prescribed by regulation; and generally, as to any matter which he or
she considers necessary or expedient to prescribe in order to carry
out, or give effect to, the Patent Cooperation Treaty or that the
purposes of this Act may be achieved.
[S. 91 amended by s. 47 of Act No. 38 of 1997.]
92.
Amends section 16bis (1) of the Universities Act, No. 61 of 1955, by
deleting paragraphs (c) and (g).
93.
Amends section 16duodec (1) (a) of the Universities Act, No. 61 of 1955,
as follows:
paragraph (a) deletes subparagraph (v); and paragraph (v) substitutes
subparagraph (vi).
94.
Amends section 16tredec of the Universities Act, No. 61 of 1955, by
deleting subsection (2).
95.
Repeal of laws.
Subject to the provisions of sections 3, 5 (2), 7 (2), 10 (4), 20 (2), 22 (1) and
30 (3), the laws specified in the Schedule are hereby repealed to the extent
set out in the third column of that Schedule.
96.
Short title and commencement.
This Act shall be called the Patents Act, 1978, and shall come into operation
on 1 January 1979, except section 21, which shall come into operation on
promulgation of this Act, except section 32 (6), which shall come into
operation on a date fixed by the State President by proclamation in the
Gazette.
Schedule
LAWS REPEALED
No. and year of law
Short title
Extent of repeal
Act No. 37 of 1952
Patents Act, 1952
The whole