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STATUTORY INSTRUMENTS
2000 No. 1561
DESIGNS
The Designs (Convention Countries)
(Amendment) (No. 2) Order 2000
Made        -      -       -      - 14th June 2000
Coming into force        -      - 14th July 2000
At the Court at Buckingham Palace, the 14th day of June 2000
Present,
The Queen’s Most Excellent Majesty in Council
Her Majesty, in exercise of the powers conferred on Her by section 13(1) and section 37(5) of the
Registered Designs Act 1949 (1), is pleased, by and with the advice of Her Privy Council, to order,
and it is hereby ordered, as follows:—
1.This Order may be cited as the Designs (Convention Countries) (Amendment) (No. 2) Order
2000 and shall come into force on 14th July 2000.
2.The countries specified in the Schedule to this Order are convention countries for the purposes
of all of the provisions of the Registered Designs Act 1949.
3.The Designs (Convention Countries) Order 1994 (2) shall be amended by the insertion in
Schedule 1 thereto of the countries specified in the Schedule to this Order in proper alphabetical
order.
A.K. Galloway
Clerk of the Privy Council
(1)1949 c. 88 .
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Schedule
Cambodia
Fiji
Grenada
Equatorial Guinea
Lao Peoples Democratic Republic
Oman
Panama
Papua New Guinea
Qatar
Sao Tome and Principe
Solomon Islands
United Arab Emirates
EXPLANATORY NOTE
(This note is not part of the Order)
This Order, made pursuant to section 13(1) of the Registered Designs Act 1949 with a view to the
fulfilment of obligations under the International Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property
(“the Paris Convention ”) (as revised at Stockholm in 1967) (Cm. 4431) and under the Agreement
establishing the World Trade Organisation (including the Agreement on Trade Related aspects of
Intellectual Property Rights) (Cm. 2556–59, 2561–69, 2571–74), declares Cambodia, Fiji, Grenada,
Equatorial Guinea, Lao Peoples Democratic Republic, Oman, Panama, Papua New Guinea, Qatar,
Sao Tome and Principe, Solomon Islands and United Arab Emirates to be convention countries for
the purposes of all of the provisions of the Registered Designs Act 1949.
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