{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/patents-amendment-rules-1999/introduction",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/patents-amendment-rules-1999/introduction.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1999/1092",
  "legislation_title": "The Patents (Amendment) Rules 1999",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/patents-amendment-rules-1999",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "PATENTS\nMade 30th March 1999\nLaid before Parliament 9th April 1999\nComing into force 4th May 1999\nThe Secretary of State, in exercise of the powers conferred upon him by sections 5(2), 14(6), 15(4), 32(5), 89, 89A, 120(1), 123 and 124 of 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."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1999/1092/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."
}