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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-contracting-out-functions-in-relation-to-applications-for-patents-order-2002/schedule-2/paragraph-1",
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  "legislation": "ukdsi/2002/0110429672",
  "legislation_title": "The Contracting Out (Functions in Relation to Applications for Patents) Order 2002",
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  "path": "schedule/2/paragraph/1",
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  "number": "1",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "Functions conferred by or under any of the following provisions of the Patents Act:\n(a) section 17 (other than subsection (2)) (preliminary examination and search); and\n(b) section 18 (substantive examination).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Words in subsection (7) of section 17 were substituted by section 295 of, and paragraph 3(2) of Schedule 5 to, the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 (c. 48) (“the 1988 Act”). Subsection (8) of section 17 was added by section 295 of, and paragraph 3(3) of Schedule 5 to, the 1988 Act."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "Subsection (1A) of section 18 was inserted by section 295 of, and paragraph 4 of Schedule 5 to, the 1988 Act."
    }
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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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