Regulation 1 Citation, commencement and interpretation

These Regulations may be cited as the Intellectual Property (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020.

These Regulations come into force immediately before IP completion day except Parts 7 and 8 which come into force on IP completion day.

In these Regulations—

• “1949 Act” means the Registered Designs Act 1949;

• “1994 Act” means the Trade Marks Act 1994;

• “2005 Regulations” means the Community Design Regulations 2005^f1;

• “Design Regulation” means Council Regulation (EC) No 6/2002 of 12th December 2001 on Community Designs^f2 as amended by Council Regulation (EC) No 1891/2006 of 18th December 2006 to give effect to the accession of the European Community to the Geneva Act of the Hague Agreement concerning the international registration of industrial designs and by the Decision of the European Union of 5th December 2011 on the admission of the Republic of Croatia to the European Union^f3; and

• “Registered Designs Rules” means the Registered Designs Rules 2006^f4.