Explanatory note

This Order brings into force on 1st October 1986 the provisions of the Patents, Designs and Marks Act 1986 which substitute a new section 1 of the Trade Marks Act 1938, amend section 34 of that Act and repeal sections 57 and 58 of that Act.

Section 4 came into force on Royal assent.

Sections 2 and 3(2), Schedule 2 and Part II of Schedule 3 come into force on 1st October 1986 by virtue of section 4(7) and the Trade Marks (Amendment) Act 1984 (Commencement) Order 1986 (S.I. 1986/1273).

Sections 1 and 3(1), so far as they relate to the Registered Designs Act 1949 (c. 88) and the Patents Act 1977 (c.37), paragraphs 3 and 4 of Schedule 1 and Part I of Schedule 3, so far as it relates to those Acts, remain to be brought into force.