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DESIGNS REGULATIONS (AMENDMENT) 1995 NO. 426

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

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 amend 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 amendments made by these Statutory Rules are as follows..

Regulation 1 sets 1 January 1996 as the commencement day for these Regulations.

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

Regulation 3 inserts into in Schedule 2A to the Regulations Albania, Peru, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Turkmenistan and Venezuela 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.