{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/patents-and-plant-variety-rights-compulsory-licensing-regulations-2002/regulation-20",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/patents-and-plant-variety-rights-compulsory-licensing-regulations-2002/regulation-20.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2002/247",
  "legislation_title": "The Patents and Plant Variety Rights (Compulsory Licensing) Regulations 2002",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/patents-and-plant-variety-rights-compulsory-licensing-regulations-2002",
  "path": "regulation/20",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "20",
  "heading": "Extension of powers to make rules and regulations",
  "text": "The power of the Secretary of State to make rules under section 123 of the 1977 Act shall be extended so as to permit her to make rules regulating the business of the Patent Office in respect of—\n(a) applications for the grant of licences under regulation 3(1),\n(b) applications under regulation 8 for variation and under regulation 9 for revocation of compulsory patent licences and cross licences,\n(c) proceedings before the controllers or the Comptroller General of Patents as the case may be in relation to applications in sub-paragraphs (a) and (b),\n(d) fees, and\n(e) other matters related to or arising under these Regulations,\nand section 124 of the 1977 Act shall apply accordingly.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in reg. 20(a) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Patents (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/801), regs. 1, 13(2) (as amended by S.I. 2020/1050, regs. 1(2), 30); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in reg. 20(b) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Patents (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/801), regs. 1, 13(3)(a) (as amended by S.I. 2020/1050, regs. 1(2), 30); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in reg. 20(b) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Patents (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/801), regs. 1, 13(3)(b) (as amended by S.I. 2020/1050, regs. 1(2), 30); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2002/247/regulation/20",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T07:15:38.426667+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."
}