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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/trade-marks-and-service-marks-fees-amendment-rules-1993/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1993/3029",
  "legislation_title": "The Trade Marks and Service Marks (Fees) (Amendment) Rules 1993",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/trade-marks-and-service-marks-fees-amendment-rules-1993",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Rules)\nThe Trade Marks and Service Marks (Fees) Rules 1992 (S.I. 1992/1069) require the payment of a fee of 20 in relation to an application for conversion of a specification from the old (pre-1938) classification in Schedule 3 to the Trade Marks and Service Marks Rules 1986 to the new classification in Schedule 4 thereto. The Patent Office is desirous of encouraging more applications for conversions by the abolition of the fee so as to update its register, and these Rules abolish that fee.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1993/3029/note",
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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."
}