PATENTS REGULATIONS (AMENDMENT) 1996 NO. 271 

PATENTS REGULATIONS (AMENDMENT) 1996 NO. 271 
- TABLE OF PROVISIONS

1.  Amendment  
2.  Schedule 4 (Convention countries)  


1996 No. 271 PATENTS REGULATIONS (AMENDMENT)
- REG 1
1. Amendment


  1.1 The Patents Regulations are amended as set out in these 
Regulations.
[NOTE: These Regulations commence on gazettal: see Acts Interpretation 
Act 1901, s. 48.]


1996 No. 271 PATENTS REGULATIONS (AMENDMENT)
- REG 2
2. Schedule 4 (Convention countries)


  2.1 Omit Schedule 4, substitute:
                          "SCHEDULE 4          Subregulation 8.5 (1)
                                                 and regulation 11.1
                       CONVENTION COUNTRIES
                             PART 1
      CONVENTION COUNTRIES THAT ARE PRESCRIBED FOREIGN COUNTRIES

Albania
Algeria
Argentina
Armenia
Austria
Azerbaijan
Bahamas
Bangladesh
Barbados
Belarus
Belgium
Benin
Bolivia
Bosnia and Herzogovina
Brazil
Bulgaria
Burkina Faso
Burundi
Cameroon
Canada
Central African Republic
Chad
Chile
China
Colombia
Congo
Costa Rica
C™te d'Ivoire
Croatia
Cuba
Cyprus
Czech Republic
Denmark (including Faroe Islands)
Dominican Republic
Egypt
El Salvador
Estonia
Finland
France (including all Overseas Departments and Territories)
Gabon
Gambia
Georgia
Germany
Ghana
Greece
Guinea
Guinea-Bissau
Guyana
Haiti
Holy See
Honduras
Hungary
Iceland
Indonesia
Iran, Islamic Republic of
Iraq
Ireland
Israel
Italy
Japan
Jordan
Kazakhstan
Kenya
Korea, Democratic People's 
Republic of
Korea, Republic of
Kyrgyzstan
Latvia
Lebanon
Lesotho
Liberia
Libyan Arab Jamahiriya
Liechtenstein
Lithuania
Luxembourg
Madagascar
Malawi
Malaysia
Mali
Malta
Mauritania
Mauritius
Mexico
Moldova
Monaco
Mongolia
Morocco
Netherlands (including the Netherlands Antilles and Aruba)
New Zealand (excluding the Cook Islands, Niue and Tokelau)
Nicaragua
Niger
Nigeria
Norway
Panama
Paraguay
Peru
Philippines
Poland
Portugal
Romania
Russian Federation
Rwanda
Saint Kitts and Nevis
Saint Lucia
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
San Marino
Senegal
Singapore
Slovak Republic
Slovenia
South Africa
Spain
Sri Lanka
Sudan
Surinam
Swaziland
Sweden
Switzerland
Syrian Arab Republic
Taiwan
Tajikistan
The former Yugoslav Republic
of Macedonia
Togo
Trinidad and Tobago
Tunisia
Turkey
Turkmenistan
Uganda
Ukraine
United Arab Emirates
United Kingdom (including Hong Kong and the Isle of Man)
United Republic of Tanzania
United States of America (including all territories and possessions, 
including the Commonwealth
of Puerto Rico)
Uruguay
Uzbekistan
Venezuela
Viet Nam
Yugoslavia
Zaire
Zambia
Zimbabwe

                                 PART 2
      CONVENTION COUNTRIES THAT ARE NOT PRESCRIBED FOREIGN COUNTRIES

India".


1996 No. 271 PATENTS REGULATIONS (AMENDMENT)
- NOTE 1


NOTES
*1* Notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette on 11 December 
1996.


1996 No. 271 PATENTS REGULATIONS (AMENDMENT)
- NOTE 2


*2* Statutory Rules 1991 No. 71 as amended by 1991 No. 456; 1992 No. 
148; 1993 Nos. 113, 227, 340 and 341; 1994 Nos. 182, 317 and 387; 1995 
Nos. 16, 20, 82 and 427.


- NOTES


1996 No. 271*1* PATENTS REGULATIONS*2* (AMENDMENT)

- Dated 4 December 1996