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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/patents-amendment-rules-1999/article-18",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/patents-amendment-rules-1999/article-18.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1999/1092",
  "legislation_title": "The Patents (Amendment) Rules 1999",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/patents-amendment-rules-1999",
  "path": "article/18",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "18",
  "heading": "Citation and commencement",
  "text": "In Schedule 1 (general forms), for item 4 of Patents Form 9/77 (request for a preliminary examination and search) substitute–\n“4 Is this request for:\na A preliminary examination and search under Section 17(1) for an international application which has been searched in the international phase? (see note (f))\nb A preliminary examination and search under Section 17(1) for any other application?\nc A supplementary search under Section 17(8)?\nd A search of a further invention under Section 17(6)?\n(Answer this question by writing a), b), c) or d).\nIf your answer is d), identify the invention to be searched by referring to the claims (see note (c))”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1999/1092/article/18",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:50:33.435029+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."
}