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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/trade-marks-and-service-marks-forms-amendment-rules-1994/introduction",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1994/2551",
  "legislation_title": "The Trade Marks and Service Marks (Forms) (Amendment) Rules 1994",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/trade-marks-and-service-marks-forms-amendment-rules-1994",
  "path": "introduction",
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  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "TRADE MARKS\nMade 29th September 1994\nLaid before Parliament 4th October 1994\nComing into force 28th October 1994\nWhereas in pursuance of the requirements of section 40(3) of the Trade Marks Act 1938 the Secretary of State has, before making the following Rules under that Act, published notice of his intention to make such Rules and of the place where copies of the draft Rules might be obtained by advertising such notice in the Trade Marks Journal and the Official Journal (Patents) on 14th September 1994, being the manner which he considered most expedient so as to enable persons affected to make representations to him before the Rules were finally settled:\nNow, therefore, the Secretary of State, in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 40 and 68(1) of the Trade Marks Act 1938 and now vested in him, hereby makes the following Rules:—",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1938 c. 22; the Act was applied, with modifications, to service marks by the Trade Marks (Amendment) Act 1984 (c. 19), section 1, as amended by the Patents, Designs and Marks Act 1986 (c. 39), section 2(1) and Schedule 3."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "S.I. 1970/1537."
    }
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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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