{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/regulatory-reform-patents-order-2004/article-7",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/regulatory-reform-patents-order-2004/article-7.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2004/2357",
  "legislation_title": "The Regulatory Reform (Patents) Order 2004",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/regulatory-reform-patents-order-2004",
  "path": "article/7",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "7",
  "heading": "Amendment of the Patents Act 1977",
  "text": "(1) Section 18 of that Act (substantive examination and grant or refusal of patent) shall be amended as follows.\n(2) In subsection (1) the words “preliminary examination and ” shall be omitted.\n(3) In subsection (2) after the words “any examination” there shall be inserted “ carried out under section 15A above”.\n(4) In subsection (4) for the words “section 17” there shall be substituted “section 15A”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2004/2357/article/7",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T05:18:51.581652+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."
}