Statutory Instruments
DESIGNS
Made
23rd February 1987
Laid before Parliament
2nd March 1987
Coming into force
24th March 1987
The Secretary of State, in exercise of the powers conferred upon him by sections 36 and 39(1) the Registered Designs Act 1949(1) and now vested in him(2) and after consultation with the Council on Tribunals pursuant to section 10(1) of the Tribunals and Inquiries Act 1971(3), hereby makes the following Rules:—
1. These Rules may be cited as the Designs (Amendment) Rules 1987 and shall come into force on 24th March 1987.
2. For rule 69 of the Designs Rules 1984(4) there shall be substituted the following:
“69.—(1) The following shall be excluded days for all purposes under the Act:
(a)all Sundays,
(b)Good Friday and Christmas Day;
(c)any day specified as or proclaimed to be a bank holiday in England in or under section 1 of the Banking and Financial Dealings Act 1971(5);
(d)any Saturday immediately preceded by one of the above.
(2) Saturdays not falling within paragraph (1) above shall be excluded days for all purposes except the filing of new applications for the registration of designs which are not Convention applications.”
Geoffrey Patlie
Minister of State,
Department of Trade and Industry
23rd February 1987
(This note is not part of the Rules)
These Rules revise rule 69 of the Designs Rules 1984, which specifies days as excluded days.