{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/patents-amendment-no-2-rules-1999/article-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/patents-amendment-no-2-rules-1999/article-4.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1999/3197",
  "legislation_title": "The Patents (Amendment) (No. 2) Rules 1999",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/patents-amendment-no-2-rules-1999",
  "path": "article/4",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Citation, commencement and transitional",
  "text": "In rule 6 (declaration of priority for the purposes of section 5)—\n(a) for paragraph (6) substitute—\n“(6) Where a copy of an application is filed or treated as having been filed under paragraph (2)(b), (3), (4) or (5) above and that application is in a language other than English:\n(a) a translation thereof into English verified to the satisfaction of the comptroller as corresponding to the original text (“verified translation”); or\n(b) a declaration to the effect that the application in suit is a complete translation into English of the priority application\nshall be filed before the patent is granted or within such other period as the comptroller may specify in a particular case.\nProvided that where the comptroller considers the filing of a declaration under subparagraph (b) to be inappropriate in a particular case, the comptroller may require the applicant to file a verified translation.”;\n(b) paragraph (7) is omitted.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1999/3197/article/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:33:51.025612+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."
}