The Goods Infringing Intellectual Property Rights (Customs) (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 2010
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | SI 2010/992 |
| Year | 2010 |
2010 No. 992
Customs
Intellectual Property
The Goods Infringing Intellectual Property Rights (Customs) (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 2010
Made 25th March 2010
Laid before Parliament 26th March 2010
Coming into force 16th April 2010
The Commissioners for Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs1make the following Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 19722.
The Commissioners have been designated3for the purposes of section 2(2) in relation to counterfeit and pirated goods, goods infringing a patent, goods infringing a supplementary protection certificate, goods infringing plant breeders’ rights, designations of origin, geographical indications and geographical designations, and goods infringing Community plant variety rights.
Citation and commencement
1. These Regulations may be cited as the Goods Infringing Intellectual Property Rights (Customs) (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 2010 and come into force on 16th April 2010.
Amendment of the Goods Infringing Intellectual Property Rights (Customs) Regulations 2004
2. The Goods Infringing Intellectual Property Rights (Customs) Regulations 20044are amended as follows.
3. In regulation 2(1), omit the definitions of—
(a) “Community design”;
(b) “Community plant variety right”;
(c) “design right”;
(d) “designation of origin”;
(e) “European patent (UK)”;
(f) “geographical designation”;
(g) “geographical indication”;
(h) “patent”;
(i) “plant breeders’ right”;
(j) “registered design”; and
(k) “supplementary protection certificate”.
4. In regulation 2(3), for “Article 2(3)”, substitute “Article 2” and, for “Article 3(1)”, substitute “Article 3”.
Omit regulations 4 and 6.
5. Omit regulations 4 and 6.
6. In regulation 7(1)5—
(a) for “regulation 4(1)(c)”, substitute “Article 9 of the Council Regulation”; and
(b) in paragraph (a), insert “be” between “may” and “destroyed”.
7. In regulation 7(5), for “regulation 4(1)(b)”, substitute “Article 9 of the Council Regulation”.
Dave Hartnett
Melanie Dawes
Two of the Commissioners for Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs
25th March 2010
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