GB046: Copyright (Designs Patents Act 1988), Order (Commencement No. 1), 09/05/1989, No. 816
STATUTORY INSTRUMENTS
1989 No. 816 (C. 21)
COPYRIGHT
DESIGNS
PATENTS
RIGHTS IN PERFORMANCES
The Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988
(Commencement No. 1) Order 1989
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. 1) Order 1989.
2. The following provisions of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 shall come into force on 1st August 1989:
Part IV (registered designs), except-
Part VII (miscellaneous and general), except-
Schedule 1 (copyright: transitional provisions and savings);
Schedule 2 (rights in performances: permitted acts);
Schedule 3 (minor and consequential amendments to the Registered Designs Act 1949), other than paragraph 21;
Schedule 5 (patents: miscellaneous amendments), other than paragraphs 1 to 11 and 17 to 30;
Schedule 8 (repeals), except in so far as it relates to-
section 32 of the Registered Designs Act 1949, and the provisions of the Patents Act 1977, other than section 49(3) of, and paragraphs 1 and 3 of Schedule 5 to, that Act.
Eric Forth
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for
Industry and Consumer Affairs
Department of Trade and Industry
9th May 1989
EXPLANATORY NOTE
(This note is not part of the Order)
This Order brings into force the majority of the provisions of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 on 1st August 1989.
The provisions relating to the Hospital for Sick Children, Great Ormond Street, London (section 301 and Schedule 6) and two provisions making minor amendments to the Patents Act 1977 (paragraphs 24 and 29 of Schedule 5) came into force on Royal Assent by virtue of section 305(1). The provisions relating to licences of right in respect of patents (sections 293 and 294) came into force on 15th January 1989 by virtue of section 305(2).
All that remains to be brought into force are:
(1) the provisions relating to the text of the Registered Designs Act 1949, as amended (section 273 and Schedule 4);