Supplementary Order Paper No 120

293A Regulations providing for transitional matters and orderly implementation of Act

• (1) The Governor-General may, by Order in Council, make regulations—

  • (a) prescribing transitional and savings provisions concerning the coming into force of this Act, which may be in addition to or in place of the transitional and savings provisions of this Part:

  • (b) providing that, subject to any conditions specified in the regulations, during a specified transitional period—

    • (i) specified provisions of this Act or the Patents Act 1953 (including definitions) do not apply (or apply with modifications or additions or both):

    • (ii) specified provisions repealed, amended, or revoked by this Act continue to apply (or apply with modifications or additions or both):

  • (c) providing for any other matters necessary for facilitating or ensuring an orderly implementation of this Act.

  (2) On the close of the day that is 3 years after the commencement of Part 3, this section is repealed and any regulations made under it that are still in force are revoked (except that those regulations continue to apply, as if not revoked, for the purposes of—

  • (a) a patent application to which the regulations applied immediately before that revocation; and

  • (b) the bringing and completion of any application, request, notice, or other proceeding relating to the patent application, whether commenced before or after that revocation).