Commonwealth Numbered Regulations

1991 No. 71 PATENTS REGULATIONS - REG 22.3

22.3 (1) If:

   (a)  for the purposes of the PCT, the Commissioner or the Patent Office is:

        (i)    a receiving Office; or

        (ii)   an International Searching Authority; or

        (iii)  an International Preliminary Examining Authority; and

   (b)  the Commissioner or the Patent Office is empowered by the PCT to
        charge a fee, other than a fee for the benefit of the
        International Bureau;
for the purposes of subsection 227 (1) of the Act ("fees"), the amount of the
fee payable to the Commissioner in respect of a matter specified in column 2
of an item of Part 3 in Schedule 7 is the amount specified in column 3 of that
item.

(2) The fees specified in items 1 and 2 of Part 3 in Schedule 7 are payable to
the Commissioner within 1 month of filing an international application.

(3) The fee specified in item 4 of Part 3 in Schedule 7 is payable to the
Commissioner on filing a demand for a preliminary examination under Article 31
of the PCT. Note: The text of the PCT is set out in Schedule 2.