New Zealand Legislation: Acts
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(1) There may from time to time be appointed under the State Sector Act 1988—
(a) One or more fit persons to be Assistant Commissioners of Patents:
(b) Such other officers and employees as may be necessary for carrying out the provisions of this Act.
(2) Every Assistant Commissioner of Patents so appointed, while he remains in office, shall have and may exercise, subject to the control and direction of the Commissioner, all the powers, duties, and functions of the Commissioner, and all references in this or any other Act to the Commissioner shall, so far as may be necessary for the purpose of giving effect to the provisions of this section, be deemed to include a reference to every Assistant Commissioner of Patents.
(3) The person who at the commencement of this Act holds the office of Deputy Commissioner of Patents, Designs, and Trade Marks under the Patents, Designs, and Trade Marks Act 1921-22 shall be deemed to have been appointed an Assistant Commissioner of Patents under this Act.
Compare: 1921-22 No 18 ss 114, 115
A reference to the State Services Act 1962 in subsection (1) was substituted, as from 1 January 1963, for a reference to the “Public Service Act 1912”
pursuant to section 77(1) State Services Act 1962 (1962 No 132). This was in turn substituted, as from 1 April 1988, by a reference to the State Sector Act 1988 pursuant to section 88(2) State Sector Act 1988 (1988 No 20).