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Explanatory note

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(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order brings into force on 1st January 1989 the remaining provisions of the Patents, Designs and Marks Act 1986. They (1) substitute a new section 17 of the Registered Designs Act 1949 and repeal section 24 of that Act and (2) substitute a new section 32 of the Patents Act 1977 and repeal section 35 of that Act.

The other provisions of the Patents, Designs and Marks Act 1986 have already come into force.

Section 4 came into force on Royal Assent.

Sections 2 and 3(2), Schedule 2 and Part II of Schedule 3 came 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 Trade Marks Act 1938 (c. 22), paragraphs 1 and 2 of Schedule 1 and Part I of Schedule 3, so far as it relates to that Act, came into force on 1st October 1986 by virtue of the Patents, Designs and Marks Act 1986 (Commencement No. 1) Order 1986 (S.I. 1986/1274).