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DESIGNS REGULATIONS (AMENDMENT) 1995 NO. 19

STATUTORY RULES 1995 No. 19

Issued by the Authority of the Minister for Small Business, Customs and Construction

Designs Act 1906

Designs Regulations (Amendment)

Section 41 of the Designs Act 1906 (the Act) empowers the Governor-General to make regulations for the purposes of the Act and for the conduct of any business relating to the, Designs Office.

The Statutory Rules mend the Designs Regulations (the Regulations) to update the list of countries declared as Convention countries under subsection 48(1) of the Act.

Details of the regulations made by these Statutory Rules are as follows:

Regulation 1 sets 23 February 1995 as the commencement day for these Regulations.

Regulation 2 identifies the Designs Regulations as those to be amended.

Regulation 3 substitutes a revised Schedule 2A to the Regulations to include Armenia, Estonia, Guyana, Liberia and Singapore in the list of Convention countries, with the effect that, by virtue of subregulation 7A(1) of the Regulations, each of those countries is declared. under subsection 48(1) of the Act to be a "Convention country" for the purposes of the Act.