No. 45/1932:

MERCHANDISE MARKS COMMISSION (COLLECTION OF FEES) REGULATIONS, 1932.

MERCHANDISE MARKS COMMISSION (COLLECTION OF FEES) REGULATIONS, 1932.

WHEREAS it is enacted by section 3 of the Public Offices Fees Act, 1879, as adapted by the Adaptation of Enactments Act, 1922 (No. 2 of 1922), that the Minister for Finance may from time to time make regulations for certain purposes respecting fees in any public office, and amongst others for the purpose of determining the use of impressed or adhesive stamps, and regulating the use of stamps and prescribing the application thereof to documents from time to time in use, and requiring documents to be used for the purpose of such stamps:

AND WHEREAS the office of the Merchandise Marks Commission is a public office within the meaning of the said Act:

AND WHEREAS by virtue of the Merchandise Marks Commission (Collection of Fees) Order 1932 (Statutory Rules and Orders, 1932, No. 44), fees payable in the office of the Merchandise Marks Commission under sub-section (3) of section 6 of the Merchandise Marks Act, 1931 (No. 48 of 1931) are to be collected by means of stamps:

NOW, THEREFORE, the Minister for Finance, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by section 3 of the Public Offices Fees Act, 1879, as adapted by the Adaptation of Enactments Act, 1922 (No. 2 of 1922), and of any and every other power him in this behalf enabling, hereby makes the following regulations, that is to say:—

1. These regulations may be cited for all purposes as the Merchandise Marks Commission (Collection of Fees) Regulations, 1932.

2. The Interpretation Act, 1889, applies to the interpretation of these regulations in like manner as it applies to the interpretation of an Act of the Oireachtas passed before the 1st day of January, 1924.

3. The stamps to be used in the office of the Merchandise Marks Commission for the collection of the fees payable to the Commission under sub-section (3) of section 6 of the Merchandise Marks Act, 1931 (No. 48 of 1931), shall be impressed stamps denoted by the General Duty Dies in the possession of the Revenue Commissioners.

4. The Merchandise Marks Commission shall give to every person by whom a fee is payable under sub-section (3) of section 6 of the Merchandise Marks Act, 1931 (No. 48 of 1931), notice in the form set out in the Schedule hereto of the amount of such fee, and the stamps for the collection of such fee shall be impressed on such form.

Given under the Official Seal of the Minister for Finance, this 30th day of April in the year one thousand nine hundred and thirty-two.

(Signed) J. J. McELLIGOTT.

SCHEDULE.

ACHT MARCANNA EARRAI CEANNAIOCHTA, 1931.

( MERCHANDISE MARKS ACT, 1931 .)

NOTICE TO APPLICANT WHOSE APPLICATION HAS BEEN REFERRED TO THE MERCHANDISE MARKS COMMISSION BY AN EXECUTIVE MINISTER OF THE AMOUNT OF THE FEE PAYABLE BY HIM.

When the applicant has received this form from the Merchandise Marks Commission he should present it for Stamping, together with the amount of fee payable at the Stamping Branch, Office of the Revenue Commissioners, Dublin Castle, or at the Stamp Office, Custom House, Cork, or at any Head Post Office or Money Order Office, and should return it when stamped to the Merchandise Marks Commission.