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This Order brings into force on 7th January 1991 the last remaining provisions of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988, namely, certain of the provisions (contained in Schedule 5) which amend the Patents Act 1949 (c. 87)and the Patents Act 1977, and the repeal of certain provisions of the latter Act (contained in Schedule 8).
Article 3 of the Order brings into force forthwith any amendment to the Patents Act 1977 effected by a provision referred to in article 2(a)and (c) which confers a power to make rules or prescribe anything, for the purpose only of making rules thereunder expressed to come into force on or after 7th January 1991.
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