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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/copyright-designs-and-patents-act-1988-commencement-no-5-order-1990/article-2",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1990/1400",
  "legislation_title": "The Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 (Commencement No. 5) Order 1990",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/copyright-designs-and-patents-act-1988-commencement-no-5-order-1990",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "The following provisions of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 shall come into force on 13th August 1990—\n(a) in Part IV (registered designs)—\n9section 272 in so far as it relates to paragraph 21 of Schedule 3, and section 273;\n(b) Part V (patent agents and trade mark agents) save in so far as article 3 below otherwise provides;\n(c) in Part VI (patents)—\n9section 295 in so far as it relates to paragraph 27 of Schedule 5;\n(d) in Part VII (miscellaneous and general)—\nsection 303(1) in so far as it relates to paragraphs 15, 18(2) and 21 of Schedule 7, and\nsection 303(2) in so far as it relates to the references in Schedule 8 to—\nsection 32 of the Registered Designs Act 1949, and sections 84, 85, 104, the words “within the meaning of section 104 above” in section 105, sections 114 and 115, section 123(2)(k), and the definition of “patent agent” in section 130(1), of the Patents Act 1977;\n(e) in Schedule 3 (minor and consequential amendments to the Registered Designs Act 1949) paragraph 21;\n(f) chedule 4;\n(g) in Schedule 5 (patents: miscellaneous amendments), paragraph 27;\n(h) in Schedule 7 (consequential amendments), paragraphs 15, 18(2) and 21;\n(i) n Schedule 8 (repeals) the references to—\nsection 32 of the Registered Designs Act 1949, and sections 84, 85, 104, the words “within the meaning of section 104 above” in section 105, sections 114 and 115, section 123(2)(k), and the definition of “patent agent” in section 130(1), of the Patents Act 1977.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1949 c. 88"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1977 c. 37"
    }
  ],
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  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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