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Inventions relating to food or medicine.
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42.—(1) Without prejudice to the foregoing provisions of this Act, where a patent is in force in respect of—
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(a) a substance capable of being used as food or medicine or in the production of food or medicine; or
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(b) a process for producing such a substance as aforesaid; or
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(c) any invention capable of being used as, or as part of a medical, surgical or other remedial device,
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the Controller shall, on application made to him by any person interested, order the grant to the applicant of a licence under the patent on such terms as he thinks fit, unless it appears to him that, having regard to the desirability of encouraging inventors and the growth and development of industry and to such other matters as he considers relevant, there are good reasons for refusing the application.
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(2) In settling the terms of licences under this section the Controller shall endeavour to secure that food, medicines and medical, surgical and other remedial devices shall be available to the public at the lowest prices consistent with the patentees' deriving a reasonable advantage from their patent rights.
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(3) A licence granted under this section shall entitle the licensee to make, use, exercise and vend the invention as a food or medicine, or for the purposes of the production of food or medicine or as, or as part of, a medical, surgical or other remedial device, but for no other purposes.
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