Paragraph 2

(1)

The Patents and Designs Act 1907 is amended as follows.

(2)

In section 62 (the Patent Office)—

(a)

in subsection (1) for “this Act and the Trade Marks Act 1905” substitute “ the Patents Act 1977, the Registered Designs Act 1949 and the Trade Marks Act 1994 ”; and

(b)

in subsections (2) and (3) for “the Board of Trade” substitute “ the Secretary of State ”.

(3)

In section 63 (officers and clerks of the Patent Office)—

(a)

for “the Board of Trade” in each place where it occurs substitute “ the Secretary of State ”; and

(b)

in subsection (2) omit the words from “and those salaries” to the end.

(4)

The repeal by the M1Patents Act 1949 and the M2Registered Designs Act 1949 of the whole of the 1907 Act, except certain provisions, shall be deemed not to have extended to the long title, date of enactment or enacting words or to so much of section 99 as provides the Act with its short title.

Annotations

Marginal citations

M1: 1949 c. 87.
M2: 1949 c. 88.