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60. Where an application for a European patent (UK) falls to be treated as an application for a patent under the Act by virtue of a direction under section 81, the period prescribed for the purposes of section 18(1) is two years [F1beginning immediately after]—
(a)where there is no declared priority date, the date of filing of the application; or
(b)where there is a declared priority date, that date.