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PATENTS REGULATIONS (AMENDMENT) 1995 NO. 20

STATUTORY RULES 1995 No. 20

Issued by the Authority of the Minister for Small Business, Customs and Construction

Patents Act 1990

Patents Regulations (Amendment)

Subsection 228(1) of the Patents Act 1990 (the Act) empowers the Governor-General to make regulations for the purposes of the Act, for prescribing matters necessary or convenient to be prescribed for carrying out or giving effect to the Act and for the conduct of any business relating to the Patent Office.

The Statutory Rules amend the Patents Regulations (the Regulations) to update the list of Convention countries, declared by virtue of subregulation 83(1) of the Regulations for the purposes of the definition of "Convention country" in the Act.

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

Regulation 1 sets 23 February 1995 as the commencement day for these Regulations.

Regulation 2 identifies the Patents Regulations as those to be amended.

Regulation 3 substitutes a revised Part 1 of Schedule 4 to the Regulations to include Armenia,' Estonia, Guyana, Liberia and Singapore in the list of Convention countries, with the effect that, under subregulation 83(1) of the Regulations, each of those countries is declared to be a Convention country for the purposes of the definition of "Convention country" in the Act.