{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/patents-fees-rules-1987/article-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/patents-fees-rules-1987/article-1.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1987/610",
  "legislation_title": "The Patents (Fees) Rules 1987",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/patents-fees-rules-1987",
  "path": "article/1",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) These Rules may be cited as the Patents (Fees) Rules 1987 and shall come into force as respects rules 1(1), 2 and 4 on 27th April 1987 and as respects rules 1(2) and 3 on 26th May 1987.\n(2) Rules 1(2), 2, 3 and 4 of and the Schedule to the Patents (Fees) Rules 1986 and Rules 1(2)(c) and (3)(b) and 3 of and Schedule 2 to the Patents (Amendment) Rules 1987 are hereby revoked.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1986/583, amended by S.I. 1987/288."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "S.I. 1987/288."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1987/610/article/1",
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  },
  "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."
}