Amendment of the Patents Act 19777
1
Section 18 of that Act (substantive examination and grant or refusal of patent) shall be amended as follows.
2
In subsection (1) the words “preliminary examination and ” shall be omitted.
3
In subsection (2) after the words “any examination” there shall be inserted “ carried out under section 15A above”.
4
In subsection (4) for the words “section 17” there shall be substituted “section 15A”.