The Semiconductor Products (Protection of Topography) Regulations 1987

Regulation 9(2)

SCHEDULE 2 CONSEQUENTIAL MODIFICATION OF LEGISLATION

1.  The provisions specified in Table A below shall apply as if references therein to copyright, or to copyright in a work, extended to topography right, and as if references therein to a work in which copyright subsists extended to a topography in which topography right subsists.

Table A

Act	Section or Schedule
Patents, Designs, Copyright and Trade Marks (Emergency) Act 1939(1)	Sections 1 and 2
Crown Proceedings Act 1947(2)	Section 3
Defence Contracts Act 1958(3)	Section 6(2)
Restrictive Trade Practices Act 1976(4)	Schedule 3, paragraph 5A
Unfair Contract Terms Act 1977(5)	Schedule 1, paragraph 1(c)
Judicature (Northern Ireland) Act 1978(6)	Section 94A(5)
State Immunity Act 1978(7)	Section 7(b)
Supreme Court Act 1981(8)	Section 72(5) and Schedule 1, paragraph 1(i)
Companies Act 1985(9)	Sections 396(1)(j) and 410(4)(c)(vi)
Law Reform (Miscellaneous Provisions) (Scotland) Act 1985(10)	Section 15(5)

2.  The provisions specified in Table B below shall apply as if there were inserted at the end of each thereof the words, “or of any topography right”.

Table B

Act	Section or Schedule
Patents Act 1949(11)	Section 47(1)
Registered Designs Act 1949(12)	Schedule 1, paragraph 2(1)
Post Office Act 1969(13)	Schedule 10, paragraphs 8(1) and 18(1)
Patents Act 1977(14)	Section 57(1)
British Telecommunications Act 1981(15)	Schedule 5, paragraphs 9(1) and 19(1)

3.  Subject to any Order made by virtue of subsection (1)(a) of section 3 of the Northern Ireland Constitution Act 1973(16) after the making of these Regulations, topography right shall not be a transferred matter for the purposes of that Act but shall for the purposes of subsection (2) of that section be treated as specified in Schedule 3 to that Act.

(1)

1939 c. 107.

(2)

1947 c. 44.

(3)

1958 c. 38.

(4)

1976 c. 34; paragraph 5A of Schedule 3 was inserted by the Competition Act 1980 (c. 21), section 30(1).

(5)

1977 c. 50.

(6)

1978 c. 23; section 94A was inserted by the Administration of Justice Act 1982 (c. 53), Schedule 8, paragraph 11.

(7)

1978 c. 33.

(8)

1981 c. 54.

(9)

1985 c. 6.

(10)

1985 c. 73.

(11)

1949 c. 87.

(12)

1949 c. 88.

(13)

1969 c. 48.

(14)

1977 c. 37.

(15)

1981 c. 38.

(16)

1973 c. 36.