Article 2 Establishment of the fund

Changes not yet applied. Later legislation changes this provision in ways not yet written into the text below:

art. 2(1) art. 2 renumbered as art. 2(1) by Secretaries of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, for Science, Innovation and Technology, for Business and Trade, and for Culture, Media and Sport and the Transfer of Functions (National Security and Investment Act 2021 etc) 2023 Sch. para. 27(2)(a)
art. 2(1) words omitted by Secretaries of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, for Science, Innovation and Technology, for Business and Trade, and for Culture, Media and Sport and the Transfer of Functions (National Security and Investment Act 2021 etc) 2023 Sch. para. 27(2)(b)(i)
art. 2 words inserted by Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills 2009 Sch. para. 15(1)
art. 2 words inserted by Secretaries of State for Children, Schools and Families, for Innovation, Universities and Skills and for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform 2007 Sch. para. 17(1)
art. 2 words inserted by Secretaries of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, for International Trade and for Exiting the European Union and the Transfer of Functions (Education and Skills) 2016 Sch. para. 17(2)
art. 2(1) words omitted by Secretaries of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, for Science, Innovation and Technology, for Business and Trade, and for Culture, Media and Sport and the Transfer of Functions (National Security and Investment Act 2021 etc) 2023 Sch. para. 27(2)(b)(ii)
art. 2(2) inserted by Secretaries of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, for Science, Innovation and Technology, for Business and Trade, and for Culture, Media and Sport and the Transfer of Functions (National Security and Investment Act 2021 etc) 2023 Sch. para. 27(2)(c)

As from 1st October 1991 for all the operations of the Department of Trade and Industry known as the Patent Office, which operations are more particularly described in Schedule 1 to this Order, there shall be established a trading fund to be known as the Patent Office Trading Fund (hereinafter referred to as “the fund”).