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Design Right (Semiconductor Topographies) (Amendment) Regulations 1993

As Enacted Cited authorities 7 Cited in Amendments 3 Related
Vincent
JurisdictionUK Non-devolved
CitationSI 1993/2497
Year1993

1993No. 2497

DESIGNS

The Design Right (Semiconductor Topographies)

(Amendment) Regulations 1993

17thOctober1993

20thOctober1993

10thNovember1993

The Secretary of State, being designated( a) for the purposes of section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 1972( b) in relation to the conferment and protection of exclusive rights in the topographies of semiconductor products, in exercise of the powers conferred upon him by the said section 2(2), hereby makes the following Regulations:

1. These Regulations may be cited as the Design Right (Semiconductor Topographies) (Amendment) Regulations 1993 and shall come into force on 10th November 1993.

2. The Design Right (Semiconductor Topographies) Regulations 1989( c) shall be amended by substituting for the Schedule thereto the Schedule set out in the Schedule to these Regulations.

Patrick McLoughlin

Parliamentary Under Secretary of State

17th October 1993

Department of Trade and Industry

(a) S.I. 1987/448.

(b) 1972 c.68.

(c) S.I. 1989/1100; the relevant amending instruments are S.I. 1991/2237 and 1992/400.

SCHEDULE

"SCHEDULE

Regulation 4(2)

ADDITIONAL CLASSES OF QUALIFYING PERSONS

PART 1

descriptions of additional classes

1. British Dependent Territory citizens.

2. Citizens and subjects of any country specified in Part II below.

3. Habitual residents of any country specified in Part II below, the Isle of Man, the Channel Islands or any colony.

4. Firms and bodies corporate formed under the law of, or of any part of, the United Kingdom, Gibraltar, another member State of the European Economic Community or any country specified in Part II below with a place of business within any country so specified at which substantial business activity is carried on.

PART II

specified countries: citizens, subjects, habitual residents, bodies corporate and other bodies having legal personality

Australia

Austria

Finland

French overseas territories (French Polynesia; French Southern and Antarctic Territories; Mayotte; New Caledonia and dependencies; Saint-Pierre and Miquelon; Wallis and Futuna Islands)

Iceland

Japan

Liechtenstein

Norway

Sweden

Switzerland

United States of America"

EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Order)

These Regulations replace the Schedule to the Design Right (Semiconductor Topographies) Regulations 1989 with two new Parts to show the current position on the additional classes of qualifying persons enjoying legal protection of topographies of...

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