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BRITISH ORDER IN COUNCIL applying Section 1 of "The Marriage of British Subjects (Facilities) Act, 1915," to the Island of Ceylon and its. Dependencies. -London, February 12, 1918.

At the Court at Buckingham Palace, the 12th day of February, 1918.

PRESENT: THE KING'S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY.

Lord President.

Lord Colebrooke.

Sir Frederick Ponsonby.

WHEREAS by section 1 of "The Marriage of British Subjects (Facilities) Act, 1915,"* it is (amongst other things) enacted as follows:

Where His Majesty is satisfied that the law in force in any part of His Majesty's Dominions outside the United Kingdom makes due provision for the publication of banns, or for the giving of notice in respect of marriages, between British subjects intended to be solemnised or contracted in the United Kingdom, and for the recognition of certificates for marriage issued by Superintendent Registrars in England, and of certificates for marriage issued by Registrars, and certificates of proclamation of banns, in Scotland, and of certificates for marriage issued by Registrars in Ireland, as sufficient notice in respect of marriages between British subjects intended to be solemnised or contracted in that part of His Majesty's Dominions, His Majesty may, by Order in Council, declare that this section shall apply to that part of his Dominions, and in such case:

(a.) Where a marriage is intended to be solemnised or contracted in the United Kingdom between a British subject resident in England, Scotland, or Ireland, and a British subject resident in that part of His Majesty's Dominions, a certificate of notice of marriage issued in accordance with such law shall in England have the same effect as a certificate for marriage issued by a Superintendent Registrar, and in Scotland and Ireland have the same effect as a certificate for marriage issued by a Registrar in Scotland and Ireland respectively; and

(b.) Where a marriage is intended to be solemnised or contracted in that part of His Majesty's Dominions between a British subject resident in that part and a British subject

* Vol. CIX, page 4.

resident in England, Scotland, or Ireland, a certificate for marriage may be issued in England by a Superintendent Registrar, or in Scotland or Ireland by a Registrar, in the like manner as if the marriage was to be solemnised or contracted under circumstances requiring the issue of such a certificate, and as if both such British subjects were resident in England, Scotland, or Ireland, as the case may be;

And whereas His Majesty is satisfied that due provision is made in respect of all the matters referred to in the hereinbefore-recited section of the said Act by the law in force in the part of His Majesty's Dominions outside the United Kingdom hereinafter mentioned:

Now, therefore, His Majesty, by virtue and in exercise of the powers by the above-recited Act in His Majesty vested, is pleased, by and with the advice of his Privy Council, to order, and it is hereby ordered, as follows:

Section 1 of "The Marriage of British Subjects (Facilities) Act, 1915," shall apply to the part of His Majesty's Dominions outside the United Kingdom hereunder

mentioned:

The Island of Ceylon and its Dependencies.

And the Right Honourable Walter Hume Long, one of His Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State, is to give the necessary directions herein accordingly.

ALMERIC FITZROY.
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BRITISH ORDER IN COUNCIL applying Section 91 of "The Patents and Designs Act, 1907," to the French Protectorate in Morocco. -London, February 12, 1918.

At the Court at Buckingham Palace, the 12th day of February, 1918.

PRESENT: THE KING'S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by Section 91 of " The Patents and Designs Act, "* it is enacted as follows:

1907,

91.-(1.) If His Majesty is pleased to make any arrangement with the Government of any foreign State for mutual protection of inventions, or designs or trade-marks, then any person who has applied for protection for any invention, design, or trade-mark in that State shall be entitled to a

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patent for his invention, or to registration of his design or trade-mark, under this Act or "The Trade-Marks Act, 1905," in priority to other applicants; and the patent or registration shall have the same date as the date of the application in the foreign State:

Provided that

(a.) The application is made in the case of a patent within 12 months, and in the case of a design or trade-mark within 4 months, from the application for protection in the foreign State; and

(b.) Nothing in this section shall entitle the patentee or proprietor of the design or trade-mark to recover damages for infringements happening prior to the actual date on which his complete specification is accepted, or his design or trade-mark is registered, in this country.

(2.) The patent granted for the invention or the registration of a design or trade-mark shall not be invalidated

(a.) In the case of a patent, by reason only of the publication of a description of, or use of, the invention; or

(b.) In the case of a design, by reason only of the exhibition or use of, or the publication of a description or representation of, the design; or

(c.) In the case of a trade-mark, by reason only of the use of the trade-mark,

in the United Kingdom or the Isle of Man during the period specified in this section as that within which the application may be made.

(3.) The application for the grant of a patent, or the registration of a design, or the registration of a trade-mark under this section, must be made in the same manner as an ordinary application under this Act or "The Trade-Marks Act, 1905":

Provided that

(a.) In the case of patents the application shall be accompanied by a complete specification, which, if it is not accepted within the twelve months from the application for protection in the foreign State, shall with the drawings (if any) be open to public inspection at the expiration of that period; and

(b.) In the case of trade-marks, any trade-mark the registration of which has been duly applied for in the country of origin may be registered under "The Trade-Marks Act, 1905."

(4.) The provisions of this section shall apply only in the case of those foreign States with respect to which His Majesty, by Order in Council, declares them to be applicable, and so long only in the case of each State as the Order in Council continues in force with respect to that State.

(5.) Where it is made to appear to His Majesty that the legislature of any British Possession has made satisfactory provision for the protection of inventions, designs, and trademarks, patented or registered in this country, it shall be lawful for His Majesty, by Order in Council, to apply the provisions of this section to that Possession, with such variations or additions, if any, as may be stated in the Order;

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And whereas by section 103 of "The Patents, Designs, and Trade-Marks Act, 1883," as amended by section 6 of The Patents, Designs, and Trade-Marks Act (Amendment Act), 1885," and by section 1 of "The Patents Act, 1901," and since repealed by section 98 of the said "Patents and Designs Act, 1907," provisions were made to the same or like effect as those above set forth as contained in section 91 of the last-mentioned Act, and by the said section 98 it was provided that "this repeal shall not affect any Convention, Order in Council, Rule, or Table of Fees having effect under any enactment so repealed, but any such Convention, Order in Council, Rule, or Table of Fees in force at the commencement of this Act shall continue in force, and may be repealed, altered or amended, as if it had been made under this Act;

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And whereas it pleased Her late Majesty Queen Victoria to make an arrangement of the nature contemplated by the said section 103, by and in virtue of a Declaration signed and sealed by Her Majesty's Ambassador at Paris on the 17th March, 1884, duly conveying the accession of Great Britain. and Ireland to the International Convention and Protocol for the protection of Industrial Property, signed by representa tives of certain Powers on the 20th March, 1883, and duly ratified on the 6th June, 1884, power being reserved to Her Majesty to accede thereafter to the provisions of the said Convention and Protocol on behalf of the Isle of Man, the Channel Islands, and any of Her Majesty's Possessions, which Declaration of Accession was duly accepted by the French Government on behalf of the signatory Powers by and in virtue of a Declaration dated the 2nd April, 1884;

And whereas on the 14th December, 1900, at Brussels. an Additional Act was agreed upon between Her late Majesty Queen Victoria and the heads of the foreign countries parties thereto for the purpose of modifying certain of the provisions of the said International Convention and the Protocol annexed thereto, the ratification of which Additional Act was duly effected;

And whereas by a Convention signed at Washington on the 2nd June, 1911,§ His Majesty and the heads of the foreign States named therein agreed to make certain modi+ Vol. LXXIV, page 44. § Vol. CIV, page 116.

* Vol. LXXV, page 414.

Vol. XCII, page 807.

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fications in and additions to the said Convention dated the 20th March, 1883, as revised at Brussels on the 14th December, 1900, the ratification of which Convention was duly effected by Great Britain and certain other States;

And whereas by various Orders in Council Her late Majesty Queen Victoria and His late Majesty King Edward VII and His present Majesty have been pleased to declare that the hereinbefore mentioned provisions of the said "Patents, Designs, and Trade-Marks Act, 1883" (as amended), should apply to the several foreign countries named in the said Orders parties to the said Convention and Protocols;

And whereas His Majesty the Sultan of Morocco has acceded to the said International Convention Protocol and Additional Act as revised at Washington on the 2nd June, 1911, in so far as concerns that part of the Empire of Morocco which is under French protection:

Now, therefore, His Majesty in pursuance of the powers in him vested by the above-recited provisions, and by and with the advice of his Privy Council, doth declare, and it is hereby declared, as follows:

1. The provisions of section 91 of "The Patents and Designs Act, 1907," shall apply to that part of the Empire of Morocco which is under French protection.

2. This Order shall take effect from the 1st August, 1917. ALMERIC FITZROY.

SPEECH OF THE KING on the Opening of the Parliament.--Westminster, February 12,

British

1918.

My Lords and Gentlemen,

THE necessities of war render it imperative for me, after but a brief interval, to summon you again to your delibera tions.

The aims for which I and my Allies are contending were recently set forth by my Government in a statement which received the emphatic approval of my peoples throughout the Empire, and provided a fair basis for the settlement of the present struggle and the re-establishment of national rights and international peace in the future.

The German Government has, however, ignored our just demands that it should make restitution for the wrongs it has committed, and furnish guarantees against their

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