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DESIGNS REGULATIONS (AMENDMENT) 1993 NO. 342

STATUTORY RULES 1993 No. 342

Issued by the Authority of the Minister for Science and Small Business

Designs Act 1906

Designs Regulations (Amendment)

The Statutory Rules amend the Designs Regulations (the Regulations) to update the list of Convention countries and make a minor drafting amendment.

Details of the regulations made by these Statutory Rules are as follows:

Regulation 1 identifies the Designs Regulations as those to be amended.

Regulation 2 substitutes a revised fee item 4 in Schedule 2 to the Regulations, which makes it clear that that fee item applies only when an extension of time is granted on the ground specified in paragraph 27B(2)(a) of the Designs Act 1906 (the Act).

Regulation 3 substitutes a revised Schedule 2A that includes Belarus, Bolivia, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Kazakhstan, Latvia, Moldova, the Russian Federation, the Slovak Republic, Slovenia, Ukraine and Uzbekistan in the list of Convention countries declared for the purposes of section 48 of the Act. Revised Schedule 4A also omits Czechoslovakia and the Soviet Union, as they ceased to be declared Convention countries.