Atomic Energy Authority (Weapons Group) Act 1973

2Any rights, liabilities or obligations of the Authority so far as arising—

(a)from an application for the grant of a patent or for the registration of a design or a trade mark, where the application was pending immediately before the appointed day;

(b)from any invention (whether patented or not) made before that day;

(c)from the use by the Authority before that day of an unregistered trade mark.