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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/patents-supplementary-protection-certificate-for-medicinal-products-amendment-rules-1993/introduction",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1993/947",
  "legislation_title": "The Patents (Supplementary Protection Certificate for Medicinal Products) (Amendment) Rules 1993",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/patents-supplementary-protection-certificate-for-medicinal-products-amendment-rules-1993",
  "path": "introduction",
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  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "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.\nPATENTS\nMade 30th March 1993\nLaid before Parliament 31st March 1993\nComing into force 21st April 1993\nThe 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: —",
  "extent": null,
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  "version": "current",
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    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1977 c. 37; the power of the Secretary of State to makes rules in respect of patents under section 123 of the Patents Act 1977 was extended by the Patents (Supplementary Protection Certificate for Medicinal Products) Regulations 1992 (S.I. 1992/3091) so as to apply in respect of supplementary protection certificates. Section 123 was amended by the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 (c. 48), section 295 and Schedule 5, paragraph 29."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1992 c. 53."
    }
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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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