A 455
I assent.
(L.S.) EDWARD FENECH ADAMI President 16th December, 2005
ACT No. XVIII of 2005
AN ACT to amend the Patents and Designs Act, Cap. 417.
BE IT ENACTED by the President, by and with the advice and consent of the House of Representatives in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows>
1. (1) The short title of this Act is the Patents and Designs (Amendment) Act, 2005 and it shall be read and construed as one with the Patents and Designs Act, hereinafter referred to as “the principal Act”.
(2) The provisions of this Act shall be deemed to have come into force on the 1st January, 2005.
Short title and commencement.
Amendment of article 26 of the principal Act.
Amendment of article 98 of the principal Act.
Passed by the House of Representatives at Sitting No. 335 of 7th December, 2005.
ANTON TABONE
Speaker
RICHARD J. CAUCHI
Clerk to the House of Representatives