# Patents Act 1949, Section 106: Repeals, transitional provisions and amendment.


(1) Subject to the provisions of this section, the enactments specified in the Second Schedule to this Act are hereby repealed to the extent specified in the third column of that Schedule.
(2) Without prejudice to the provisions of the Interpretation Act 1978, with respect to repeals, the transitional provisions set out in the Third Schedule to this Act shall have effect for the purposes of the transition to the provisions of this Act from the law in force before the commencement of the Patents and Designs Act 1949.
(3) For subsection (8) of section twelve of the Atomic Energy Act, 1946, there shall be substituted the following subsection :—
“(8) The power of the Minister of Supply and persons authorised by the Minister of Supply under sections forty-six of the Patents Act, 1949, shall include power to make, use, exercise or vend an invention for such purposes relating to the production or use of atomic energy or research into matters connected therewith as the Minister thinks necessary or expedient, and any reference in that section or in sections forty-seven or forty-eight of that Act to the services of the Crown shall be construed as including a reference to those purposes.”

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Geo6/12-13-14/87/section/106 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/patents-act-1949/section-106
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