{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/patents-and-designs-act-1907/section-63",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/patents-and-designs-act-1907/section-63.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/Edw7/7/29",
  "legislation_title": "Patents and Designs Act 1907",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/patents-and-designs-act-1907",
  "path": "section/63",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "63",
  "heading": "Officers and clerks.",
  "text": "(1) There shall continue to be a comptroller-general of patents, designs, and trade marks, and the Secretary of State may, subject to the approval of the Minister for the Civil Service, appoint the comptroller, and so many examiners and other officers and clerks, with such designations and duties as the Secretary of State think fit, and may remove any of those officers and clerks.\n(2) The salaries of those officers and clerks shall be appointed by the Secretary of State, with the concurrence of the Minister for the Civil Service. . ..",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 63 substituted (31.10.1994) by 1994 c. 26, s. 106(1), Sch. 4 para. 2(3)(a); S.I. 1994/2550, art. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words substituted by virtue of S.I. 1968/1656, arts. 2(1)(e), 3(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Functions of the Board of Trade now exercisable concurrently by Secretary of State: S.I. 1970/1537, art. 2(1)(a)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Edw7/7/29/section/63",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:22:13.825187+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}