Statutory Instrument 2001 No. 2125

The Designs (Convention Countries) (Amendment) Order 2001

(The document as of February, 2008)

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STATUTORY INSTRUMENTS

2001 No. 2125

DESIGNS

The Designs (Convention Countries) (Amendment) Order 2001

	Made	9th June 2001
	Coming into force	11th July 2001

At the Court at Buckingham Palace, the 9th day of June 2001
Present,
The Queen's Most Excellent Majesty in Council
Her Majesty, in exercise of the powers conferred on Her by section 13(1) and section 37(5) of the Registered Designs Act 1949[1], is pleased, by and with the advice of Her Privy Council, to order, and it is hereby ordered, as follows:

    1.This Order may be cited as the Designs (Convention Countries) (Amendment) Order 2001 and shall come into force on 11th July 2001.

    2.The countries specified in the Schedule to this Order are convention countries for the purposes of all of the provisions of the Registered Designs Act 1949.

    3.The Designs (Convention Countries) Order 1994[2] shall be amended by the insertion in Schedule 1 thereto of the countries specified in the Schedule to this Order in proper alphabetical order.

A. K. Galloway
Clerk of the Privy Council

SCHEDULEArticles 2 and 3

Bhutan

Nepal

Tonga

EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order, made pursuant to section 13(1) of the Registered Designs Act 1949 with a view to the fulfilment of obligations under the International Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property ("the Paris Convention") (as revised at Stockholm in 1967) (Cmnd. 4431), declares Bhutan, Nepal and Tonga to be convention countries for the purposes of all the provisions of the Registered Designs Act 1949.

Notes:

[1] 1949 c. 88.back

[2] S.I. 1994/3219 as amended by S.I. 1995/2988, S.I. 2000/1115 and S.I. 2000/1561.back

ISBN 0 11 029565 X

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