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14. If a question arises whether any publication, not being a 33 & 34 VICT. registered newspaper, is a newspaper or a supplement, or whether any packet is a book packet or pattern or sample packet, within this Act or any Treasury warrant or Post Office regulations, the decision newspapers, thereon of the Postmaster-General shall be final, save that the packets, &c. Treasury may, if they think fit, on the application of any person interested, reverse or modify the decision, and order accordingly.

Act, &c.

15. If any registered or other newspaper, supplement, publication, Newspapers, &c. book packet, pattern or sample packet, or post card, is sent by post sent not in conotherwise than in conformity with this Act or any Treasury warrant formity with or Post Office regulations, it shall be either returned to the sender thereof or forwarded to its destination, in either case charged with such rate of postage not exceeding the letter rate of postage, or without any additional charge, as the Postmaster-General, with the approval of the Treasury, from time to time directs, having been, if necessary, detained and opened in the Post Office.

16. A book packet, pattern or sample packet, or post card sent by Application to post shall be deemed a post letter, within the Act described in the book packets, second schedule to this Act.

&c. of enactments as to post

Despatch and

delivery of book packets, &c.

17. Where the despatch or delivery from a post-office of letters letters. would be delayed by the despatch or delivery therefrom at the same time of book packets, pattern or sample packets, and post cards, or any of them, the same or any of them may, subject and according to Post Office regulations, be detained in the Post Office until the despatch or delivery next following that by which they would ordinarily be despatched or delivered.

18. The Commissioners of Inland Revenue shall from time to time Provision for provide proper dies and other implements for denoting by adhesive or stamps, &c. embossed or impressed stamps or otherwise the duties of postage payable in the United Kingdom under this Act or any Treasury warrant thereunder.

Those duties shall be deemed stamp duties, and shall be under the management of the Commissioners of Inland Revenue.

So much of the Act secondly described in the first schedule to this Act as relates to stamp duties under that Act shall apply to the stamp duties under this Act."

A newspaper or packet sent by post and the cover thereof (if any) shall be deemed a letter or cover (as the case may be) within section twenty-three of the Act secondly described in the first schedule to this Act; and a post card shall be deemed a letter within that section, and the duties under this Act shall be deemed to be comprised in the duties in that section referred to.

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19. It shall not be lawful for any person to affix to a letter, news- Prohibition of paper, supplement, publication, packet, or card sent by post, or to the user of embossed cover thereof (if any), by way of prepayment of postage thereon, an stamps removed 'embossed or impressed stamp cut out or otherwise separated from the from paper, &c. cover or other paper, card, or thing on which such stamp was embossed or impressed, although such stamp has not been before sent by post or used.

If any letter, newspaper, supplement, publication, packet, or card is sent by post with a stamp affixed thereto or to the cover thereof (if any) that has been so cut out or separated, the postage thereof as far as it purports to be prepaid by that stamp shall be deemed to be not prepaid.

20. The Postmaster-General may from time to time with the Prohibition of approval of the Treasury make such regulations as he thinks fit for sending indecent articles, &c. by preventing the sending or delivery by post of indecent or obscene post,

C. 79

33 & 34 VICT. prints, paintings, photographs, lithographs, engravings, books, or cards, or of other indecent or obscene articles, or of letters, newspapers, supplements, publications, packets, or post cards, having thereon, or on the covers thereof, any words, marks, or designs of an indecent, obscene, libellous, or grossly offensive character.

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regulations, &c.

21. The Documentary Evidence Act, 1868, shall have effect as if the Postmaster-General were mentioned in the first column, and any secretary or assistant-secretary of the Post Office were mentioned in the second column, of the schedule to that Act; and any approval of the Treasury under this Act shall be deemed an order within that Act.

SCHEDULES.

THE FIRST SCHEDULE.
ENACTMENTS REPEALED.

6 & 7 Will. 4, c. 76, An Act to reduce the duties on newspapers, and)

in part.

3 & 4 Vict. c. 96,
in part.

11 & 12 Vict. c. 117.
16 & 17 Vict. c. 63,
in part.

in part;

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newspapers and advertisements...

Sections one to three (both inclusive), and sections thirtyfour and thirty-five.

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Section eleven; sections thirteen, sixteen, and seventeen,
as far as those three sections relate to printed votes or
proceedings of Parliament, addressed to places out of
the United Kingdom, or to newspapers; section forty-
two; sections forty-four, forty-five, and forty-six, as
far as those three sections relate to newspapers; and
sections forty-seven to fifty-one (both inclusive).
An Act for rendering certain newspapers published in the
Channel Islands and the Isle of Man liable to postage.
An Act to repeal certain stamp duties, and to
grant others in lieu thereof, to give relief with
respect to the stamp duties on newspapers and
supplements thereto, to repeal the duty on ad- namely,-
vertisements, and otherwise to amend the laws
relating to stamp duties ...

Sections three and four.

in part;

18 & 19 Vict. c. 27. An Act to amend the laws relating to the stamp duties on newspapers, and to provide for the transmission by post of printed periodical publications.

THE SECOND SCHEDULE.

ACT REFERRED TO.

7 Will. 4, & 1 Vict. c. 36.-An Act for consolidating the laws relative to offences against the Post Office of the United Kingdom, and for regulating the judicial administration of the Post Office laws, and for explaining certain terms and expressions employed in those laws.

COPYRIGHT OF DESIGNS.

DIRECTIONS ISSUED BY THE BOARD OF TRADE.

ORNAMENTAL DESIGNS.

DIRECTIONS FOR REGISTERING AND SEARCHING.

PERSONS proposing to register a design for ornamenting an article of manufacture, must bring or send to the Designs Office:

1. Two exactly similar copies, drawings (or tracings), not in
pencil, photographs, or prints. thereof, with the proper fees.
2. The name and address of the proprietor or proprietors, or the
title of the firm under which he or they may be trading,
together with their place of abode, or place of carrying on
business, distinctly written or printed.

3. The number of the class in respect of which such registration
is intended to be made, except it be for sculpture.

The aforesaid copies may consist of portions of the manufactured articles (except carpets, oil-cloths, and woollen shawls), when such can conveniently be done (as in the case of paper hangings, calico prints, &c.), which, as well as the drawings or tracings (which must be fixed), or prints of the design, to be furnished when the article is of such a nature as not to admit of being pasted in a book, must, whether coloured or not, be facsimiles of each other.

Should paper hangings or furnitures exceed forty-two inches in length, by twenty-three inches in breadth, drawings will be required, but they must not exceed these dimensions.

Applications for registering may be made in the following form:

APPLICATION TO REGISTER.

(Blank Forms may be obtained at the Office.)

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You are hereby requested to register, provisionally, the accompanying ornamental designs (in class 1, [2, 3, 4, &c.,]) (or for sculpture) in the name of (A. B of or, (A. B. of trading under the style or firm of B D. & Co., of who claim to be the proprietors thereof, and to return the same (if sent by post), (if brought by hand) to the bearer of the official acknowledg

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by J. F.

The person bringing a design must take an acknowledgment for it, which will be delivered to him on payment of the proper fees. This acknowledgment must be produced on application for the certified copy, which will he returned in exchange for the same.

• If not provisionally, strike out the word "provisionally."

Here insert "for sculpture," if for sculpture, or the class or classes.

Insert here the name and address of the proprietor, in the form in which it is

to be entered on the certificate.

A design may be registered in respect of one or more of the above classes, according as it is intended to be employed in one or more species of manufacture, but a separate fee must be paid, and two exactly similar copies supplied, on account of each separate class, and all such registrations must be made at the same time.

After the design has been registered, one of the two copies, drawings (or tracings), or prints, will be filed at the office, and the other returned to the proprietor, with a certificate annexed, on which will appear the mark to be placed on each article of manufacture to which the design shall have been applied.

If the design is for an article registered under Class 10, no mark is required, but there must be printed on such article, at each end of the original piece thereof, the name and address of the proprietor, and the word "registered," together with the years for which the design is registered.

If the design is for sculpture, no mark is required to be placed thereon after registration, but merely the word "registered" and the date of registration.

If the design is for provisional registration, no mark is required to be placed thereon after registration, but merely the words " provisionally registered" and the date of registration.

Any person who shall put the registration mark on any design not registered, or after the copyright thereof has expired, is liable to forfeit for every such offence 51.

TRANSFERS.

In case of the transfer of a design, registered, whether provisionally or completely, the certified copy thereof must be transmitted to the registrar, together with the fee and forms of application (which may be procured at the office), properly filled up and signed. The transfer will then be registered and the certified copy returned.

EXTENSION OF COPYRIGHT.

The copyright may be extended in certain cases in provisional registration, for a term not exceeding the additional term of six months, and in complete registration for a term not exceeding the additional term of three years, as the Board of Trade may think fit.

In case of extension, the certified copy, together with the proper fee, should be delivered at the Designs Office for registration, prior to the expiration of the existing copyright.

SEARCHES.

All designs of which the copyright has expired may be inspected at the Designs Office, on the payment of the proper fee; but no design, the copyright of which is existing, is in general open to inspection. Any person, however, may, by application at the office, and on production of the registration mark, except in Class 10, of any particular design, be furnished with a certificate of search, stating whether the copyright be in existence, and in respect to what particular article of manufacture it exists: also, the term of such copyright and the date of registration, and the name and address of the registered proprietor thereof.

Any party may also, on the production of a piece of the manufactured article with the pattern thereon, together with the registration mark, be informed whether such pattern, supposed to be registered, is really so or not.

As this mark is not applied to a provisionally registered design, or

to articles registered under Class 10, certificates of search for such designs will be given on production of the design, or a copy or drawing thereof, with the number and date of registration.

Persons bringing designs to be registered, on delivering them, must compare such designs together, count them, and see that the name and address and number of class is correctly given, and examine their certificates previous to leaving the office, to see that the name, &c., is correctly entered, as no error can afterwards be rectified.

An acknowledgment of its receipt will be delivered, on payment of the fees, to the person bringing a design, and no certified copy of a design will be returned, except to the bearer of this acknowledgment, which must be produced on application at the office for the certified copy, and given in exchange for the same.

All communications for the registration of designs may be made either through the General Post Office, directed to "The Registrar of Designs, Designs Office, London, S.W.," or by any other mode of conveyance; and provided the carriage be paid, and the proper fees, or a post-office order for the amount, payable at the post-office, Charing-cross, to J. H. Bowen, Esq., be inclosed, the designs will be duly registered, and the certified copies returned to the proprietors free of expense.

Postage stamps, orders upon bankers or other persons, country and Scotch bank notes, and light gold, cannot be received in payment of fees.

The Designs Office, No. 1, Whitehall, S.W., is open every day, between the hours of ten in the morning and four in the afternoon, during which time inquiries and searches may be made. Designs and transfers are registered from eleven until three.

Directions for registering designs for articles of utility may be procured at the office.

By order of the Registrar.

ORNAMENTAL.

COPYRIGHT OF DESIGNS FOR ORNAMENTING ARTICLES OF MANUFACTure.

By provisional registration under the Designs Act, 1850 (13 & 14 Vict. c. 104), a copyright of one year (which may be further extended for six months by order of the Board of Trade) is given to the author or proprietor of original designs for ornamenting any article of manufacture or substance. During such terms the proprietor of the design may sell the right to apply the same to an article of manufacture, but must not, under the penalty of nullifying the copyright, sell any article with the design applied thereto until after complete registration, which must be effected prior to the expiration of the provisional registration.

By complete registration under the Designs Act, 1842 (5 & 6 Vict. c. 100), a copyright or property is given to the author or proprietor of any new or original design for ornamenting any article of manufacture or substance for the various terms specified in the following classes, which terms may be extended under special circumstances.

Under the Designs Act, 1858 (21 & 22 Vict. c. 70), a copyright is given for articles in Class 10, for a term of three years, subject to the proviso therein contained.

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