Commonwealth Numbered Regulations

1994 No. 317 PATENTS REGULATIONS (AMENDMENT) - REG 10

10.1 The amendments made by regulation 8 do not apply to:

   (a)  a continuation fee in respect of a year; or

   (b)  a renewal fee in respect of a year of a patent; being a year or a year
        of a patent ending on or after the commencement of these Regulations,
        if that continuation fee or renewal fee became due and payable, and
        was paid, before that commencement.

10.2 If a patent request and complete specification relating to an application
for a standard patent has been accepted under section 49 of the Act before the
commencement of these Regulations, the fee payable for the sealing of that
patent is the fee payable for the sealing of that patent immediately before
that commencement.

10.3 In this regulation:

"continuation fee" means a continuation fee for the purposes of paragraph 142
(2) (d) of the Act;

"renewal fee" means a renewal fee for the purposes of paragraph 143 (a) of the
Act.