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1996
The Parliament of
the
Commonwealth of
Australia
THE
SENATE
Presented and read a first
time
Patents Amendment Bill
1996
No. ,
1996
(Senator Stott
Despoja)
A Bill for an Act to amend the
Patents Act 1990, and for related purposes
Contents
A Bill for an Act to
amend the Patents Act 1990, and for related purposes
The Parliament of Australia enacts:
This Act may be cited as the Patents Amendment Act 1996.
This Act commences on the day on
10
which it receives the Royal Assent.
The Acts specified in the Schedules are amended in accordance with the
applicable items in the Schedules, and the other items in the Schedules have
effect according to their terms.
1 At the end of section 18
Add:
(3) The following are not to be regarded as possessing the quality of
novelty or inventiveness for the purposes of this section:
(a) naturally occurring genes; or
(b) naturally occurring gene sequences; or
(c) descriptions of the base sequence of a naturally occurring gene or a
naturally occurring gene sequence.