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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/design-right-proceedings-before-comptroller-amendment-rules-1999/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1999/3195",
  "legislation_title": "The Design Right (Proceedings before Comptroller) (Amendment) Rules 1999",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/design-right-proceedings-before-comptroller-amendment-rules-1999",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Rules)\nThese Rules amend the Design Right (Proceedings before Comptroller) Rules 1989 (S.I. 1989/1130). These Rules—\n(a) make provision for the Comptroller to give directions to the parties to attend a case management conference or pre-hearing review (rule 3);\n(b) make provision for witness statements to be given in evidence and for the calling of witnesses in certain circumstances (rules 4 and 5);\n(c) make provision for the Comptroller to vary time limits where he considers it appropriate (rule 6);\n(d) extend the hours for certain transactions of business of the Patent Office, to between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m. on business days (rule 7); and\n(e) make Tuesday 4th January 2000 an excluded day; that is to say a day on which the Patent Office is closed for the purposes of the transaction by the public of business with that Office (rule 7);\nThese Rules take effect on 22nd December 1999 save that rules 3, 4 and 6 shall not apply to any proceedings already begun before the Comptroller at the time of entry into force of these Rules but that they should apply to such proceedings from 26th April 2000.\nA Regulatory Impact assessment is available, copies of which have been placed in the libraries of both Houses of Parliament. Copies of the assessment are also available from the Patents and Designs Directorate, Concept House, Cardiff Road, Newport NP9 1RH.",
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  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1999/3195/note",
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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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