{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/patent-office-address-rules-1991/introduction",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/patent-office-address-rules-1991/introduction.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1991/675",
  "legislation_title": "The Patent Office (Address) Rules 1991",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/patent-office-address-rules-1991",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "DESIGNS\nPATENTS\nTRADE MARKS\nMade 14th March 1991\nLaid before Parliament 18th March 1991\nComing into force 15th April 1991\nWhereas, so far as these Rules are made under the Trade Marks Act 1938, the Secretary of State has, in pursuance of section 40(3) of that Act and before making these Rules, published notice of his intention to make these Rules and of the place where copies of the draft Rules might be obtained by advertising such notice in the Trade Marks Journal and the Official Journal (Patents) on 20 February 1991 and 27 February 1991, being the manner which he considered most expedient so as to enable persons affected to make representations to him before the Rules were finally settled:\nNow, therefore, the Secretary of State, in exercise of the powers conferred by section 40(1)(e) of the Trade Marks Act 1938 and now vested in him, and in exercise of the powers conferred upon him by section 36(1) of the Registered Designs Act 1949 and section 123(1) of and paragraph 14 of Schedule 4 to the Patents Act 1977, hereby makes the following Rules:—",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1938 c. 22; the Act was applied, with modifications, to service marks by the Trade Marks (Amendment) Act 1984 (c. 19), section 1, as amended by the Patents, Designs and Marks Act 1986 (c. 39), section 2(1) and Schedule 3."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "S.I. 1970/1537."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "1949 c. 88; section 36(1) was amended by the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 (c. 48)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f4",
      "text": "1977 c. 37."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1991/675/introduction",
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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."
}