PART 1GENERAL

Citation, commencement and interpretation1.

(1)

These Regulations may be cited as the Trade Marks (International Registrations Designating the European Community, etc.) Regulations 2004.

(2)

These Regulations (other than the regulations referred to in paragraph (3)) shall come into force on 1st October 2004.

(3)

Regulations 10 and 13 shall come into force on 1st November 2004, and regulation 15 shall come into force on 1st April 2005.

(4)

In these Regulations—

(a)

“the 1994 Act” means the Trade Marks Act 1994 (and a reference to a numbered section is to a section of that Act);

(b)

“the 1996 Regulations” means the Community Trade Mark Regulations 19964 (and a reference to a numbered regulation is to a regulation of those Regulations).