GB050: Copyright (Designs Patents Act 1988), Order (Commencement No. 5), 10/07/1990, No. 1400 (C.42)
1990 No. 1400 (C.42)
DESIGNS
PATENTS
TRADE MARKS
The Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 (Commencement No. 5) Order 1990
The Secretary of State, in exercise of the powers conferred upon him by section 305(3) of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 19881, hereby makes the following Order:
1. This Order may be cited as the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 (Commencement No. 5) Order 1990.
2. The following provisions of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 shall come into force on 13th August 1990-
(a) in Part IV (registered designs)-
(b) Part V (patent agents and trade mark agents) save in so far as article 3 below otherwise provides;
(d) in Part VII (miscellaneous and general)-
(e) in Schedule 3 (minor and consequential amendments to the Registered Designs Act 1949) paragraph 21;
(f) Schedule 4;
(g) in Schedule 5 (patents: miscellaneous amendments), paragraph 27;
Douglas Hogg
Minister of State,
Department of Trade and Industry
10th July 1990
EXPLANATORY NOTE
(This note is not part of the Order)
The majority of the provisions of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 (the 1988 Act) were brought into force on 1st August 1989 by the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 (Commencement No. 1) Order 1989 (S.I. 1989/816 (C.21)), as amended by S.I. 1989/1303 (C.45) (the Commencement No. 4 Order).
Article 2 of this Order brings into force on 13th August 1990 the provisions of the 1988 Act relating to patent agents and trade mark agents (Part V) and certain miscellaneous and consequential amendments relating to provisions in the Patents Act 1977 and the Registered Designs Act 1949 on patent agents, their registration under the Patents Act 1977 and their recognition by the Comptroller-General of Patents, Designs and Trade Marks. This Order also brings into force Schedule 4 which contains the text of the Registered Designs Act 1949 as amended by the 1988 Act.
Article 3 brings into force forthwith any provision of Part V of the 1988 Act conferring power to make rules, for the purpose only of making rules thereunder expressed to come into force on or after 13th August 1990.