{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/design-right-proceedings-before-comptroller-rules-1989/article-21",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/design-right-proceedings-before-comptroller-rules-1989/article-21.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1989/1130",
  "legislation_title": "The Design Right (Proceedings before Comptroller) Rules 1989",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/design-right-proceedings-before-comptroller-rules-1989",
  "path": "article/21",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "21",
  "heading": "General",
  "text": "Hours of businessFor the purposes of these Rules the Patent Office shall be open Monday to Friday–\n(a) between 9.00 a.m. and midnight, for the filing of applications, forms and other documents, and\n(b) between 9.00 a.m. and 5.00 p.m. for all other purposes,\nexcluding Good Friday, Christmas Day , Tuesday 4th January 2000 and any day specified or proclaimed to be a bank holiday under section 1 of the Banking and Financial Dealings Act 1971.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in rule 21(a) substituted (22.12.1999) by The Design Right (Proceedings before Comptroller) (Amendment) Rules 1999 (S.I. 1999/3195), rules 1(1), 7(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in rule 21(b) substituted (22.12.1999) by The Design Right (Proceedings before Comptroller) (Amendment) Rules 1999 (S.I. 1999/3195), rules 1(1), 7(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in rule 21(b) substituted (22.12.1999) by The Design Right (Proceedings before Comptroller) (Amendment) Rules 1999 (S.I. 1999/3195), rules 1(1), 7(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in rule 21 inserted (22.12.1999) by The Design Right (Proceedings before Comptroller) (Amendment) Rules 1999 (S.I. 1999/3195), rules 1(1), 7(c)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Rule 21 in force at 1.8.1989, see rule 1"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1971 c. 80."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1989/1130/article/21",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T15:41:21.905642+00:00"
  },
  "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."
}