{"id":"C1904L00011","name":"Patents Regulations (Provisional)","slug":"c1904l00011","collection":"legislative_instrument","jurisdiction":"commonwealth","status":"repealed","isInForce":false,"actNumber":"11 of 1904","makingDate":null,"administeringDepartment":null,"currentVersion":{"id":320040,"registerId":"commonwealth-C1904L00011-current","compilationNumber":null,"startDate":"2026-04-08","status":"Repealed","reasons":null,"registeredAt":null},"sections":[{"sectionNumber":"1","sectionType":"section","heading":"Patents Regulations (Provisional)","content":"---\nmeta-content-style-type: text/css\nmeta-content-type: application/xhtml+xml; charset=utf-8\nmeta-generator: Aspose.Words for .NET 20.2\n---\n\n?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"utf-8\" standalone=\"no\"?>\n\nSTATUTORY RULES.\n\n1904. No. 11.\n\n \n\nCommonwealth of Australia.\n\nDepartment of Trade and Customs,\n\nMelbourne, 18th March, 1904.\n\nHIS Excellency the Governor-General, in pursuance of the Patents Act 1903, has been pleased to make the following Regulation, to come into force forthwith as a Provisional Regulation.\n\nWILLIAM JOHN LYNE,\n\nMinister for Trade and Customs.\n\n \n\nProvisional Regulation under the Patents Act 1903.\n\nSection 29.\n\nPending the commencement of the Patents Act 1903, the following Provisional Regulation shall have force:—\n\n(1) The Patent Office shall, from the 26th day of February, 1904, be temporarily established at the Melbourne Exhibition Building, in the State of Victoria, instead of at the Commonwealth Public Offices, Spring-street, Melbourne, in the said State.\n\n \n\nBy Authority: J. Kemp, Acting Government Printer, Melbourne.\n\nC.2816.\n","sortOrder":0}],"analysis":{"kimi_summary":{"_metrics":{"model":"kimi-k2.5","source":"moonshot-batch","completionTokens":2332},"content_quality":"ok","complexity_score":1,"scope_assessment":{"changed":false,"description":"This provisional regulation remains confined to its original limited purpose: temporarily relocating the Patent Office pending commencement of the enabling Act. It is a discrete administrative measure with no expansion beyond the spatial and temporal scope intended in 1904."},"complexity_factors":["Single operative provision containing only one sentence","No defined terms, schedules, or interpretation sections","No conditional logic, exceptions, or cross-references (aside from enabling Act citation)","Straightforward administrative directive with fixed dates and specific addresses"],"plain_english_summary":"This regulation temporarily moved the Patent Office to a different building in Melbourne while the new Patents Act was waiting to start.\n\n**What it does**\n* Changes the Patent Office location from the Commonwealth Public Offices on Spring Street to the Melbourne Exhibition Building\n* Took effect on 26 February 1904\n* Only lasted until the Patents Act 1903 officially commenced (a short-term bridge)\n\n**Who it affects**\n* Inventors lodging patent applications in early 1904\n* Staff working at the Patent Office\n\n**Why it matters**\nThis is a housekeeping measure to ensure the patent system kept running during the transition to new federal legislation. It simply provided a temporary physical address for the office while the permanent legal framework was being switched on."}},"importantCases":[],"_links":{"self":"/api/acts/c1904l00011","history":"/api/acts/c1904l00011/history","analysis":"/api/acts/c1904l00011/analysis","conflicts":"/api/acts/c1904l00011/conflicts","importantCases":"/api/acts/c1904l00011/important-cases","documents":"/api/acts/c1904l00011/documents"}}