PART 1GENERAL

Citation, commencement and interpretationI11

1

These Regulations may be cited as the Trade Marks (International Registrations Designating the European Community, etc.) Regulations 2004.

2

These Regulations (other than the regulations referred to in paragraph (3)) shall come into force on 1st October 2004.

3

Regulations 10 and 13 shall come into force on 1st November 2004, and regulation 15 shall come into force on 1st April 2005.

4

In these Regulations—

a

“the 1994 Act” means the Trade Marks Act 1994 (and a reference to a numbered section is to a section of that Act);

b

“the 1996 Regulations” means the Community Trade Mark Regulations 19964 (and a reference to a numbered regulation is to a regulation of those Regulations).