10.—(1) Section 30 of that Act (nature of, and transactions in, patents and applications for patents) shall be amended as follows.
(2) In subsection (6)—
(a)for the words “the parties to the transaction” there shall be substituted “the assignor or mortgagor”;
(b)the words “ or in the case of a body corporate” to the end of the subsection shall be omitted.
(3) After subsection (6) there shall be inserted—
“(6A) If a transaction mentioned in subsection (6) above is by a body corporate, references in that subsection to such a transaction being signed by or on behalf of the assignor or mortgagor shall be taken to include references to its being under the seal of the body corporate.”.