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Power of Minister to make rules.
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3.—(1) The Minister may from time to time make such rules, prescribe such forms and generally do such things as he thinks expedient—
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(a) for regulating the practice under this Act, including the service of documents;
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(b) for classifying goods for the purposes of registration of trade marks;
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(c) for making or requiring duplicates of trade marks and other documents;
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(d) for securing and regulating the publishing and selling or distributing, in such manner as the Minister thinks fit, of copies of trade marks and other documents;
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(e) generally, for regulating the business of the Office in relation to trade marks and all things by this Act placed under the direction or control of the Controller or of the Minister;
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(f) for prescribing any matter referred to in this Act as prescribed or to be prescribed.
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(2) Rules made under this Act shall, while in force, be of the same effect as if they were contained in this Act.
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(3) Every rule made under this Act shall be advertised twice in the Journal, and shall be laid before each House of the Oireachtas as soon as may be after it is made and if a resolution annulling the rule is passed by either House within the next subsequent twenty-one days on which that House has sat after the rule is laid before it, the rule shall be annulled accordingly but without prejudice to the validity of anything previously done thereunder.
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