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Statutory Instruments

1988 No. 1824 (C.68)

PATENTS

DESIGNS

The Patents, Designs and Marks Act 1986 (Commencement No. 2) Order 1988

Made 24th October 1988

The Secretary of State, in exercise of the power conferred on him by section 4(6) of the Patents, Designs and Marks Act 1986(1), hereby makes the following Order:

1. This Order may be cited as the Patents, Designs and Marks Act 1986 (Commencement No. 2) Order 1988.

2. The following provisions of the Patents, Designs and Marks Act 1986 shall come into force on 1st January 1989:

Section 1, so far as it relates to paragraphs 3 and 4 of Schedule 1

Section 3(1), so far as it relates to the repeal of section 24 of the Registered Designs

Act 1949(2) and section 35 of the Patents Act 1977(3).

Schedule 1, paragraphs 3 and 4.

Schedule 3, Part I, so far as it relates to the repeal of the said sections 24 and 35.

Eric Forth

Department of Trade and Industry24th October 1988

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order brings into force on 1st January 1989 the remaining provisions of the Patents, Designs and Marks Act 1986. They (1) substitute a new section 17 of the Registered Designs Act 1949 and repeal section 24 of that Act and (2) substitute a new section 32 of the Patents Act 1977 and repeal section 35 of that Act.

The other provisions of the Patents, Designs and Marks Act 1986 have already come into force.

Section 4 came into force on Royal Assent.

Sections 2 and 3(2), Schedule 2 and Part II of Schedule 3 came into force on 1st October 1986 by virtue of section 4(7) and the Trade Marks (Amendment) Act 1984 (Commencement) Order 1986 (S.I. 1986/1273).

Sections 1 and 3(1), so far as they relate to the Trade Marks Act 1938 (c. 22), paragraphs 1 and 2 of Schedule 1 and Part I of Schedule 3, so far as it relates to that Act, came into force on 1st October 1986 by virtue of the Patents, Designs and Marks Act 1986 (Commencement No. 1) Order 1986 (S.I. 1986/1274).

(1)1986 c. 39.

(2)1949 c. 88.

(3)1977 c. 37.