Article 3 Citation, commencement and transitional

In relation to the time or period for doing any act or taking any proceeding, for the words “two months” in each place where they occur in any of the rules mentioned in paragraph (2) below, there shall be substituted the words “six weeks”.

The rules referred to in paragraph (1) above are rules 7(3), (4) and (5) (references under section 8(1)(a) or 12(1)(a)), rules 8(3), (5), (6) and (7) (references by co-proprietors under section 8(1)(b) or 12(1)(b)), rule 12(2) (request by joint applicant under section 10 or 12(4)), rule 13(2) (reference to the comptroller under section 11(5)), rule 14(3) (mention of inventor under section 13), rule 40(4) (amendment of specification after grant), rule 43(4) (surrender of patents), rules 54(3), (4) and (5) (reference of question to the comptroller under section 37(1)), rule 58(2) (reference to comptroller under section 38(5)), rules 59(3), (4) and (5) (application under section 40 for compensation), rules 62(3) and (4) (application under section 46(3) to settle licences of right), rule 71(3) (opposition under section 52), rules 72(4), (5), (6) and (7) (procedure on reference to comptroller under section 61(3)), rules 73(3), (4) and (5) (procedure where validity of patent in dispute), rules 74(2), (3) and (4) (procedure on application under section 71) and rules 75(3), (4) and (5) (procedure on application for revocation under section 72).