# The Patents (Supplementary Protection Certificate for Medicinal Products) (Amendment) Rules 1993

S.I. 1993/947 · made 30 March 1993

These Rules amend the Patents (Supplementary Protection Certificate for Medicinal Products) Rules 1992 (S.I. 1992/3162 which came into force on 2nd January 1993) to correct certain drafting errors in those Rules.

Made under: Patents Act 1977 (Section 123, Schedule 4 paragraph 14); Tribunals and Inquiries Act 1992

## Introductory text

This Statutory Instrument has been made in consequence of defects in S.I. 1992/3162 and is being issued free of charge to all known recipients of that Statutory Instrument.
PATENTS
Made 30th March 1993
Laid before Parliament 31st March 1993
Coming into force 21st April 1993
The Secretary of State, in exercise of the powers conferred by section 123 of, and paragraph 14 of Schedule 4 to, the Patents Act 1977, after consultation with the Council of Tribunals pursuant to section 8(1) of the Tribunals and Inquiries Act 1992, hereby makes the following Rules: —

## 1 

(1) These Rules may be cited as the Patents (Supplementary Protection Certificate for Medicinal Products) (Amendment) Rules 1993 and shall come into force on 21st April 1993.
(2) These Rules extend to Great Britain and Northern Ireland.

## 2 

The Patents (Supplementary Protection Certificate for Medicinal Products) Rules 1992 shall be amended as follows
(a) in the column headed Reminder of Form SP1 (Request for grant of Supplementary Protection Certificate) in Schedule 2 (General Forms) the words must be valid at the time of making the application and appearing in the second item thereunder shall be omitted;
(b) Schedule 4 (Fees), for the word “Request” in the first item thereunder there shall be substituted the word “Application” and for the words “On payment of annual fees (and additional fee for late payment)” in the second item thereunder there shall be substituted “Annual fees”.

## Signature

E Leigh
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Trade and Technology
Department of Trade and Industry
30th March 1993

## Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Rules)
These Rules amend the Patents (Supplementary Protection Certificate for Medicinal Products) Rules 1992 (S.I. 1992/3162 which came into force on 2nd January 1993) to correct certain drafting errors in those Rules.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1993/947 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/patents-supplementary-protection-certificate-for-medicinal-products-amendment-rules-1993
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