Hong Kong Ordinances

PATENTS ORDINANCE - SECT 68

Declaration of extreme urgency

(Past version on 30/06/1997).

Amendments retroactively made - see 22 of 1999 s. 3 PART IX

GOVERNMENT USE OF PATENTED INVENTIONS

The Chief Executive in Council may, for the purposes of applying sections  69
to 71, by regulation declare a period of extreme urgency whenever Chief
Executive in Council considers it to be necessary or expedient in the public
interest for the maintenance of supplies and services essential to the life of
the community or for securing sufficient supplies and services essential to
the life of the community. <* Note - Exp. X-Ref.: Sections 
 69, 70, 71 *> (Amended 22 of 1999 s. 3)