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Assignments and Licenses. 15. Before any assignment or license executed in New Zealand shall be registered, the assignee or licensee shall furnish —• (1.) A statutory declaration by one of the attesting witnesses to the said assignment or license of the due execution of the said assignment or license : (2.) A certified copy or copies of the assignment or license, and other instruments or documents of title. 16. Before any assignment or license executed out of New Zealand shall be registered, the assignee or licensee shall furnish — (1.) A statutory declaration by one of the attesting witnesses to the said assignment or license of the due execution of tho said assignment or license : Provided that, if it be proved to the satisfaction of tho said Patent Officer that the attesting witness to any such assignment or license is dead or cannot be found, the execution of the said assignment or license may be proved by a statutory declaration of any other person capable of declaring to the same. (2.) A certified copy or copies of the assignment or license, and other instruments or documents of title: (3.) A statutory declaration by the applicant that he is the person named in the copy deed, and that it is a true copy of the original deed. 17. No assignment or license of two or more Letters Patent or Letters of Eegistration included in one deed or instrument shall be registered ; and no certificate of assignment or license shall be granted, unless a fee for such registration or certificate be paid in respect of each such Letters Patent or Letters of Eegistration in respect of which such registration or certificate is desired. Miscellaneous. 18. Documents in any language other than English, deposited in the Patent Office, must be accompanied by translations into English certified to as correct by some person approved of by the Patent Officer ; and the regulations relating to original documents shall apply to translations. 19. In any case where any deed or instrument proposed to be lodged or deposited in the Patent Office, under the said Act or these regulations, fails to comply with any of the provisions thereof as to the authentication of any such deed or instrument, or in respect of any clerical error in the framing or copying thereof, the Patent Officer may, in his discretion, allow the same to be so lodged or deposited, upon such terms or conditions as he shall prescribe. 20. The fee of one shilling for every search and inspection mentioned in the Eighth Schedule to the said Act, shall bo paid for the inspection of each book, specification, and the drawings appertaining to each Letters Patent, Letters of Eegistration, or Application. 21. Applications for copies of documents or drawings in the Patent Office must be accompanied by a deposit of such sum as the Eegistrar of Patents shall consider sufficient to cover the cost of copying. Copies of drawings are to be charged for according to the time and labour required in each ease. 22. All indices and registers which have been directed to be made or kept, or approved of by the Governor in Council, or the Governor, under any of the provisions of the said Act, shall respectively be applicable, and shall be used for the purposes of these regulations. 23. In the interpretation of these regulations, the following terms and expressions shall have the meanings hereby assigned to them : — (1.) A " statutory declaration " means a declaration made in Great Britain or Ireland, or any British colony, or New Zealand, before a Justice of the Peace, Notary Public, or» other person having authority to take or receive a declaration under any law for the time being in force ; and, if made in any foreign country, means a like declaration made before a British Consul or Vice-Consul, or other person having authority to take or receive such a declaration under any Act of the Imperial Parliament for the time being iv force authorizing the taking or receiving thereof. (2.) " A certified copy" means a copy of any deed or instrument certified by a statutory declaration as aforesaid, or by a notary public, to be a true and correct copy, and shall include any such copy under the seal of any Patent Office or other department issuing any such patent, and certified under the hand of any Commission or other officer of such office or department to be a true copy thereof. (3.) And the interpretations contained in section 4 of the said Act shall extend and apply to these regulations. Forster Goring, Clerk of the Executive Council.

By Authority : George Didsbuet, Government Printer, Wellington. —1878. Prico 3d.]