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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/patents-amendment-no-2-rules-1999/introduction",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/patents-amendment-no-2-rules-1999/introduction.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": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "PATENTS\nMade 29th November 1999\nLaid before Parliament 30th November 1999\nComing into force 22nd December 1999\nThe Secretary of State, in exercise of the powers conferred upon him by sections 5(2), 8(3), 13(1) and (2), 14(1) and (2), 15(2), (3) and (5), 17(1), (2) and (8), 29, 32(2), (5), (6) and (7), 89, 89A, 123, 124 and 127(6) of, and paragraph 14 of Schedule 4 to, the Patents Act 1977, after consultation with the Council on Tribunals pursuant to section 8(1) of the Tribunals and Inquiries Act 1992, hereby makes the following Rules—",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1977 c. 37."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1992 c. 53."
    }
  ],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1999/3197/introduction",
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  },
  "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."
}