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21(1)Where, in pursuance of an agreement to which this Schedule applies, being an agreement made in relation to a design, communication of the design is made to the Corporation or a person authorised by it to consider the merits of the design, an application for the registration of the design shall not be invalidated by reason only of that communication or of anything done in consequence thereof.U.K.
(2)An authorisation to consider the merits of a design given under subsection (3) of section 6 of the M1Registered Designs Act 1949 which is in force immediately before the appointed day and has effect as if given by the Post Office shall, so far as may be necessary in consequence of the enactment of Part I of this Act, have effect on and after that day as if given by the Corporation and, in relation to that design, the said subsection (3) shall have effect as if references to a government department included references to the Corporation.
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C1Sch. 5 paras. 3–22 modified by Telecommunications Act 1984 (c.12, SIF 96), s. 109, Sch. 6 paras. 1–14
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