Commonwealth Consolidated Acts(1) A person may apply for a patent for an invention by filing, in accordance with the regulations, a patent request and such other documents as are prescribed.
(2) An application may be a provisional application or a complete application.
(3) A patent request in relation to a provisional application must be in the approved form and accompanied by a provisional specification.
(4) A patent request in relation to a complete application must be in the approved form and accompanied by a complete specification.
(5) In this section:
"person" includes a body of persons, whether incorporated or not.
[ Note: see also section 5 for requirements relating to associated applications .]
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