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IP/N/1/GBR/C/10  
 
11 February 2021  
(21-1124)  Page: 1/2 
Council for Trade -Related Aspects of  
Intellectual Property Rights  Original: English  
 
NOTIFICATION OF LAWS AND REGULATIONS  
UNDER ARTICLE 63.2 OF THE TRIPS AGREEMENT  
UNITED KINGDOM : HEALTH AND PERSONAL SOCIAL SERVICES  
(NORTHERN IRELAND) ORDER 1991, SI 1991/194 (N.I.1)  
Notifying Member  UNITED KINGDOM  
 
Details of the notified legal text  
 
Title Health and Personal Social Services (Northern Ireland) Order 1991, 
SI 1991/194 (N.I.1)  
Subject matter  Copyright and related rights  
Nature of 
notification  [  ] Main dedicated intellectual property law or regulation  
[X] Other law or regulation  
Link to legal text* https://ip -documents.info/2021/IP/GBR/21_0843_00_e.pdf  
Notification status  [  ] First notification  
[X] Amendment or revision to notified legal text  
[  ] Replacement or consolidation of notified legal text(s)  
Previous 
notification(s) 
referred to  IP/N/1/GBR/C/1  
Brief description of the notified legal text  
 
Amends Copyright, Patents & Design Act 1988; In section 48 (material communicated to the Crown 
in the course of public business) in subsection (6) after "1978" there shall be inserted "and also 
includes a health and social services body, as defined in Arti cle 7(6) of the Health and Personal Social 
Services (Northern Ireland) Order 1991, and a Health and Social Services trust established under 
that Order ". 
 
Language(s) of 
notified legal text English  
Entry into force  1 April 1991; The following provisions shall come into operation on 
1st April 1991, namely — 
 
(a) this Article;  
(b) Articles 2, 3, 4, 6, 29(1)(a) and (b), 30, 32 and 33;  
(c) Schedule 1;  
(d) Part I of Schedule 5 and Article 34 so far as it relates to that Part;  
(e) Part I of Schedule 6 and Article 35 so far as it relates to that Part.  
 
Other date    IP/N/1/GBR/90 • IP/N/1/GBR/C/10  
 
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  Notification details  
 
Submission date 
of notification  29 January 2021  
Other information  https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisi/1991/194/article/1/made  
Agency or 
authority 
responsible  UK Intellectual Property Office  
 
Concept House  
Cardiff Road  
Newport  
South Wales  
NP10 8QQ  
United Kingdom  
 
information@ipo.gov.uk  
 
0300 300 2000  
 
Outside the UK:  
+44 (0)1633 814000  
 
 
 
* Links are provided to texts of laws and regulations notified under the TRIPS Agreement in the form 
supplied by the Member concerned; the WTO Secretariat does not endorse or revise their content.  