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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/patents-act-2004-commencement-no-1-and-consequential-and-transitional-provisions-order-2004/article-1",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2004/2177",
  "legislation_title": "The Patents Act 2004 (Commencement No. 1 and Consequential and Transitional Provisions) Order 2004",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/patents-act-2004-commencement-no-1-and-consequential-and-transitional-provisions-order-2004",
  "path": "article/1",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Citation, commencement and interpretation of this Order",
  "text": "(1) This Order may be cited as the Patents Act 2004 (Commencement No. 1 and Consequential and Transitional Provisions) Order 2004, and shall come into force on 22nd September 2004.\n(2) In this Order—\n“the 1977 Act” means the Patents Act 1977;\n“the 2004 Act” means the Patents Act 2004;\n“the Rules” means the Patents Rules 1995.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1977 c. 37. Sections 120 and 123 of that Act are amended by paragraphs 24 and 26(1), (3) and (4) of Schedule 2 to the Patents Act 2004 (which are brought into force by article 2 of this Order). Section 123 was previously amended by paragraph 29 of Schedule 5, paragraph 22 of Schedule 7, and Schedule 8 to the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 (c. 48). By article 3 of SI 1981/1670, the reference in section 123(5) to the Minister for the Civil Service is to be construed as if it were a reference to the Treasury."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "SI 1995/2093, to which amendments relevant to this Order have been made by SI 1999/1092, 1999/3197, 2001/1412 and 2003/513."
    }
  ],
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  "provenance": {
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2004/2177/article/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T05:19:53.380135+00:00"
  },
  "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."
}