Patents Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

Statutory Rules 1981 No. 2031

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Patents Regulations2 (Amendment)

I, THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, hereby make the following Regulations under the Patents Act 1952.

Dated 15 July 1981.

ZELMAN COWEN

Governor-General

By His Excellency’s Command,

DAVID THOMSON

Minister of State for Science and Technology

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Commencement

1. These Regulations shall be deemed to have come into operatiooperation on 31 March 1980.

2. Regulation 14 of the Patents Regulations is repealed and the following regulation substituted:

Copies of specifications

“14. (1) Subject to sub-regulation (2) and regulation 15, an applicant shall lodge with a specification—

(a) a copy, certified by the applicant to be a true and correct copy, of the specification including any drawings contained in the specification; and

(b) in the case of a complete specification or a petty patent specification, an additional copy of the claim or claims.

“(2) This regulation does not apply to international applications.”.

NOTES

1. Notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette on 21 July 1981.

2. Statutory Rules 1962 No. 2 as amended to date. For previous amendments see Note 2 to Statutory Rules 1981 No. 1 and see also