Commonwealth Consolidated Regulations Commonwealth Consolidated Regulations(1) For section 8 of the Act:
(a) the prescribed period for documents to which paragraph 8 (a) of the Act applies is 3 months from the date on which the Commissioner requests the document; and
(b) the prescribed period for documents to which paragraph 8 (b) of the Act applies is 3 months from the date on which the Commissioner requests the translation of a document.
Note A translation of a document into English that is filed must have with it a related certificate of verification (see regulation 22.15).
(2) A matter that was claimed or disclosed in a disclaimer or acknowledgement of prior art in a basic application or in a specification or other document filed in respect of, and at the same time as, the basic application is not taken to have been disclosed.