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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/trade-marks-and-service-marks-relevant-countries-amendment-order-1987/introduction",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1987/170",
  "legislation_title": "The Trade Marks and Service Marks (Relevant Countries) (Amendment) Order 1987",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/trade-marks-and-service-marks-relevant-countries-amendment-order-1987",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "TRADE MARKS\nMade 10th February 1987\nLaid before Parliament 18th February 1987\nComing into force 11th March 1987\nAt the Court at Buckingham Palace, the 10th day of February 1987\nPresent\nThe Queen’s Most Excellent Majesty in Council.\nWhereas Her Majesty is satisfied that provision has been or will be made under the laws of Belgium, Brazil, the Federal Republic of Germany (and Berlin (West)), Luxembourg and the Netherlands (including Aruba and the Netherlands Antilles) whereby priority for the protection of service marks in respect of which application for registration under the Trade Marks Act 1938 has been made will be given on a basis comparable to that for which provision is made by section 39A of that Act in relation to applications for registration made in a relevant country (as defined in that section):\nNow, therefore, Her Majesty, in exercise of the powers conferred on Her by section 39A(7) of the said Act, is pleased, by and with the advice of Her Privy Council, to order, and it is hereby ordered, as follows:",
  "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": "Section 39A was added by the Patents, Designs and Marks Act 1986 (c. 39), Schedule 2, paragraph 5, and is applied to service marks by the Trade Marks (Amendment) Act 1984 (c. 19), section 1(2) and Schedule 1, paragraph 18C, as respectively substituted and inserted by the Patents, Designs and Marks Act 1986, section 2(1)(a) and Schedule 2, paragraph 11."
    }
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1987/170/introduction",
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  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
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  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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