Defence Contracts Act 1958

7 Repeal and transitional provisions

(1) The Defence (Patents, Trade Marks, etc.) Regulations, 1941, and any Order in Council in force at the commencement of this Act under subsection (2) of section forty-nine of the Patents Act, 1949, or sub-paragraph (2) of paragraph 4 of the First Schedule to the Registered Designs Act, 1949, are hereby repealed.

(2) Any authorisation given before the commencement of this Act under section forty-six of the Patents Act, 1949, as extended by section forty-nine of that Act, or under paragraph 1 of the First Schedule to the Registered Designs Act, 1949, as extended by paragraph 4 of that Schedule, shall, if in force immediately before the commencement of this Act, and so far as it could be given under the said section forty-six or the said paragraph 1 as amended by section one of this Act, continue in force and have effect as if so given.

(3) Any authorisation in force under paragraph (5) of Regulation 3 of the said Regulations immediately before the commencement of this Act shall, in so far as it relates to the production or supply of defence materials, continue in force and have effect as if duly given under section two of this Act in respect of all such restrictions and obligations as are mentioned in subsection (1) of that section; and that section and section four of this Act shall apply accordingly in relation to anything done after the commencement of this Act in pursuance of such authorisation.