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Part VI · Part VI Supplemental

Section 16

(1)

The property in every discovery, invention, and improvement in any process, apparatus and machine made by any officer or employee of the Institute in the course of his official duty or during the period when such officer or employee is under the employment or in the service of the Institute shall be vested in the Institute.

(2)

Nothing in subsection (1) of this section shall prevent the Council with the approval of the Minister from—

(a)

making available such discovery, invention and improvement, as described in subsection (1) above, to any person subject to the payment of such fees or royalties and such conditions, if any, as the Council may with the approval of the Minister determine; and

(b)

paying to any officer or employee of the Institute a bonus in respect of any useful discoveries or inventions made by such officer or employee.

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