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Article 31 Formal requirements

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(1)

The requirements of rules 16(1), 18(1) and (2) (other than those contained in paragraph (2)(h)), 20 (other than those contained in the last sentence of paragraph (11) and in paragraphs (12) and (14)) and 30(1)(a) shall be formal requirements for the purposes of the Act.

(2)

Where the application is—

(a)

an application for a European patent (UK); or

(b)

an international application for a patent (UK)

which, by virtue of section 81 or 89, as the case may be, is to be treated as an application for a patent under the Act, the said requirements of rules 16(1), 18(1) and (2) and 20 shall be treated as having been complied with to the extent that the requirements of the corresponding provisions of the Implementing Regulations to the European Patent Convention or, as the case may be, of the Regulations made under the Patent Co-operation Treaty, have been fulfilled.