Introductory text

Patents

Made 5th September 2016

Laid before Parliament 8th September 2016

Coming into force

for the purposes of rules 3(b), 9 and 17 6th April 2017

for all other purposes 1st October 2016

The Secretary of State makes the following Rules in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 19(1), 32(2) and 123 of the Patents Act 1977^f1.

Annotations

f1: 1977 c.37; see section 123(1) for the definitions of “prescribed” and “rules”; section 32 was substituted by the Patents, Designs and Marks Act 1986 (c.39), Schedule 1, paragraph 4 and amended by section 13(3) of the Patents Act 2004 (c.16) (there are other amendments to section 32 but none is relevant), section 123 was amended by the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 (c.48), Schedule 5, paragraph 29. There are other amendments to section 123 which are not relevant to these Rules.