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PATENTS REGULATIONS (AMENDMENT) 1991 NO. 456

STATUTORY RULES 1991 No. 456

Issued by the Authority of the Minister of State for Science and Technology

The Statutory Rules amend the Patents Regulations (the Regulations) to update the English text of the Patent Cooperation Treaty (the PCT) in Schedule 2 to the Regulations, to vary the fees payable under the PCT for international applications prescribed in Part 4 in Schedule 7 to the Regulations, to declare Chile and Swaziland to be Convention countries, and to make a number of technical and drafting amendments.

Details of the amendments are as follows:

Regulation 1 sets 1 January 1992 as the commencement day for regulations 3, 5 and 7.

Regulation 2 identifies the Patents Regulations as those to he amended.

Regulation 3 amends subregulation 1.4(2) of the Regulations to reflect the day on which regulation 5, which amends the English text of the PCT in Schedule 2 to the Regulations, comes into force.

Regulation 4 corrects a grammatical error in regulation 22.2 of the Regulations.

Regulation 5 replaces the Schedule of Fees in the English text of the PCT in Schedule 2 to the Regulations with the revised Schedule of Fees that was agreed to by the Assembly of the International Patent Cooperation Union which administers the PCT.

Regulation 6 includes Chile and Swaziland in Part 1 of the list of Convention countries contained in Schedule 4 to the Regulations. Minor drafting changes are also made to the titles of the two Parts in Schedule 4 and to the style in which some countries are referred to in Part 1 of the Schedule.

Regulation 7 amends Part 4 in Schedule 7 to the Patents Regulations to increase the fees for international applications payable for the benefit of the International Bureau of the World Intellectual Property Organization in line with the revised fees agreed to by the Assembly of the International Patent Cooperation Union.