{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/patents-and-designs-act-1907/section-62",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/patents-and-designs-act-1907/section-62.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/Edw7/7/29",
  "legislation_title": "Patents and Designs Act 1907",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/patents-and-designs-act-1907",
  "path": "section/62",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "62",
  "heading": "Patent Office.",
  "text": "(1) The Treasury may continue to provide for the purposes of the Patents Act 1977, the Registered Designs Act 1949 and the Trade Marks Act 1994, an office with all requisite buildings and conveniences, which shall be called, and is in this Act referred to as, the Patent Office.\n(2) The Patent Office shall be under the immediate control of the comptroller, who shall act under the superintendence and direction of the Secretary of State.\n(3) Any act or thing directed to be done by or to the comptroller may be done by or to any officer authorised by the Secretary of State.\n(4) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 62(1) substituted (31.10.1994) by 1994 c. 26, s. 106(1), Sch. 4 para. 2(2)(a); S.I. 1994/2550 art. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in s. 62(2)(3) substituted (31.10.1994) by 1994 c. 26, s. 106(1), Sch. 4 para. 2(2)(b); S.I. 1999/2550 art. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in s. 62(2)(3) substituted (31.10.1994) by 1994 c. 26, s. 106(1), Sch. 4 para. 2(2)(b); S.I. 1999/2550 art. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Ss. 48–61, 62(4), 65–:81, 83–87, 89, 90, 91(2)–(2C), 91B–91D, 92–:98, Schs. 1, 2 repealed by Patents Act 1949 (c. 87), Schs. 2, 3 and Registered Designs Act 1949 (c. 88), s. 48, Sch. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "S. 62(1) extended by Patents, Designs and Marks Act 1986 (c. 39, SIF 67A), s. 2(3), Sch. 2 Pt. II para. 2(2)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C2",
      "text": "S. 62(1): By virtue of S.I. 1981/1670, arts. 2(1)(a), 3(5) s. 63 (1) (2) has effect as if the reference to the Minister for the Civil Service were a reference to the Treasury"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C3",
      "text": "S. 62(2) extended by Patents, Designs and Marks Act 1986 (c. 39, SIF 67A), s. 2(3), Sch. 2 Pt. II para. 2(2)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C4",
      "text": "Functions of the Board of Trade now exercisable concurrently by Secretary of State: S.I. 1970/1537, art. 2(1)(a)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Edw7/7/29/section/62",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:22:13.825187+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."
}