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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/patents-amendment-rules-2005/article-27",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/patents-amendment-rules-2005/article-27.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2005/2496",
  "legislation_title": "The Patents (Amendment) Rules 2005",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/patents-amendment-rules-2005",
  "path": "article/27",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "27",
  "heading": "Transitional provisions",
  "text": "(1) Where the period prescribed for the payment of a renewal fee by the original rule 39 expires on or after 1st October 2005, rules 39 to 39C as substituted by rule 6 of these Rules shall apply in respect of that payment.\n(2) Where that period expires before 1st October 2005, rule 42 as substituted by rule 8 of these Rules shall have effect as if the reference to rule 39A or 39B were a reference to paragraphs (1) or (2) of the original rule 39.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2005/2496/article/27",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T04:52:52.871467+00:00",
    "licence": "OGL-UK-3.0",
    "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."
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}