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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/post-office-act-1969/schedule-10/paragraph-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/post-office-act-1969/schedule-10/paragraph-1.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1969/48",
  "legislation_title": "Post Office Act 1969",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/post-office-act-1969",
  "path": "schedule/10/paragraph/1",
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  "number": "1",
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  "text": "For the purposes of so much of section 32(1) of the Patents Act 1949 as provides that a patent may be revoked on the grounds that the invention, so far as claimed in any claim of the complete specification, was secretly used in the United Kingdom before the priority date of that claim, no account shall be taken of any use, on or after the appointed day, of the invention by the Post Office or a person authorised by it, in consequence of the applicant for the patent or any person from whom he derives title having communicated or disclosed the invention directly or indirectly,—\n(a) before the appointed day, to a government department or person authorised by a government department; or\n(b) on or after the appointed day, in pursuance of an agreement in the case of which rights and liabilities thereunder vest in the Post Office by virtue of sections 16 to 18 of this Act, to the Post Office or a person authorised by it.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "M",
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      "text": "1949 c. 87."
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    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:52:01.323747+00:00"
  },
  "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."
}