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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/patents-rules-1990/schedule-2/paragraph-5",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1990/2384",
  "legislation_title": "The Patents Rules 1990",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/patents-rules-1990",
  "path": "schedule/2/paragraph/5",
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  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Interpretation of Schedule",
  "text": "(1) In this Schedule—\n“the Budapest Treaty” means the Treaty on the International Recognition of the Deposit of Micro-organisms for the purposes of Patent Procedure done at Budapest in 1977;\nand “international depository authority” means a depository institution which has acquired the status of international depository authority as provided in Article 7 of the Budapest Treaty.\n(2) For the purposes of this Schedule a “depositary institution” is an institution which, at all relevant times,—\n(a) carries out the functions of receiving, accepting and storing micro-organisms and the furnishing of samples thereof; and\n(b) conducts its affairs in so far as they relate to the carrying out of those functions in an objective and impartial manner.",
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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."
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