The Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 (Commencement No. 1) Order 1989

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order brings into force the majority of the provisions of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 on 1st August 1989.

The provisions relating to the Hospital for Sick Children, Great Ormond Street, London (section 301 and Schedule 6) and two provisions making minor amendments to the Patents Act 1977 (paragraphs 24 and 29 of Schedule 5) came into force on Royal Assent by virtue of section 305(1). The provisions relating to licences of right in respect of patents (sections 293 and 294) came into force on 15th January 1989 by virtue of section 305(2).

All that remains to be brought into force are:

(1) the provisions relating to the text of the Registered Designs Act 1949, as amended (section 273 and Schedule 4);

(2) the provisions relating to patent agents and trade mark agents (Part V, paragraph 21 of Schedule 3, paragraphs 15, 18(2) and 21 of Schedule 7 and parts of, or part of the effect of, each of sections 272, 303(1) and (2) and Schedule 8);

(3) certain of the provisions which amend the Patents Act 1949 (c. 87) and the Patents Act 1977 (paragraphs 1 to 11 and 17 to 30 of Schedule 5 and parts of, or part of the effect of, each of sections 295 and 303(2) and Schedule 8).