New Zealand Legislation: Acts
Acts are laws made by Parliament
(1) The Minister may from time to time, by notice in the Journal, appoint a place to be the Patent Office. The place at the commencement of this Act used as the Patent Office shall be deemed to have been appointed to be the Patent Office under this Act.
(2) The Commissioner, from time to time by notice in the Journal, may fix the hours during which the Patent Office shall be open for the transaction of public business under this Act, and may declare the Patent Office closed for the transaction of public business on any day.
(3) Where the time prescribed for doing any act or taking any proceeding expires on a day on which the Patent Office is not open and by reason thereof the act or proceeding cannot be done or taken on that day, the act or proceeding shall be deemed to be in time if done or taken on the next day on which the Patent Office is open.
(4) There shall be a seal of the Patent Office and impressions thereof shall be judicially noticed.
Compare: Patents Act 1949, s 98 (UK); 1921-22 No 18 ss 113, 116, 133
Subsection (2) was substituted, as from 9 December 1976, by section 2(1) Patents Amendment Act 1976 (1976 No 112).