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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/patents-amendment-rules-1992/introduction",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/patents-amendment-rules-1992/introduction.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1992/1142",
  "legislation_title": "The Patents (Amendment) Rules 1992",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/patents-amendment-rules-1992",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "PATENTS\nMade 11th May 1992\nLaid before Parliament 11th May 1992\nComing into force\nFor all purposes other than rules 10 and 14 1st June 1992\nFor the purposes of rules 10 and 14 1st July 1992\nThe Secretary of State, in exercise of powers conferred upon him by sections 14(6), 18(1) and (4), 20(1), 25(3), 32(5), (6) and (7), 89, 89A(3) and (5), 123(1) to (3A), 124 and 125A(3) of the Patents Act 1977, after consultation with the Council on Tribunals pursuant to section 10(1) of the Tribunals and Inquiries Act 1971, hereby makes the following Rules:—",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1977 c. 37; section 89 was replaced and section 89A was inserted by the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 (c. 48), section 295 and Schedule 5, paragraph 25; section 123 was amended by the said Act of 1988, section 295 and Schedule 5, paragraph 29; section 125A was inserted by the said Act of 1988, section 295 and Schedule 5, paragraph 30."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1971 c. 62."
    }
  ],
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  "provenance": {
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1992/1142/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."
}