S.I. No. 316/1976 - Patents, Designs and Trade Marks (International Arrangements) (Amendment) Order, 1976.

1. This Order may be cited as the Patents, Designs and Trade Marks (International Arrangements) (Amendment) Order, 1976.

2. The

Interpretation Act, 1937

(No. 38 of 1937), applies to this Order.

3. The Patents, Designs and Trade Marks (International Arrangements) Order, 1959 (

S.I. No. 22 of 1959

), as amended by the Patents, Designs and Trade Marks (International Arrangements) (Amendment) Order, 1966 (

S.I. No. 30 of 1966

), and the Patents, Designs and Trade Marks (International Arrangements) (Amendment) Order, 1968 (

S.I. No. 32 of 1968

), shall have effect as if, for the foreign states specified in the First Schedule thereto, there were substituted the foreign states specified in the Schedule to this Order.

SCHEDULE.

Algeria

Congo

Argentina

Cuba

Australia, together with Papua

Cyprus

New Guinea, Norfolk Island

Czechoslovakia

and Nauru

Denmark, together with the

Austria

Faroe Islands

Belgium

Dominican Republic

Benin

Egypt

Brazil

Finland

Bulgaria

France, including overseas

Cameroon

Departments and overseas

Canada

territories

Central African Republic

Gabon

Chad

German Democratic Republic

Germany, Federal Republic of

Poland

Greece

Portugal, together with the

Haiti

Azores and Madeira

Holy See

Romania

Hungary

San Marino

Iceland

Senegal

Indonesia

South Africa

Iran

Southern Rhodesia

Iraq

Spain, together with the Spanish

Israel

Colonies

Italy

Sri Lanka

Ivory Coast

Sweden

Japan

Switzerland

Jordan

Syria

Kenya

Tanzania

Lebanon

Togo

Liechtenstein

Trinidad and Tobago

Luxembourg

Tunisia

Madagascar

Turkey

Malawi

Uganda

Malta

Union of Soviet Socialist

Mauritania

Republics

Mexico

United Kingdom together with

Monaco

Singapore

Morocco

United States of America together

Netherlands, together with

with the territories of Puerto

Surinam, Netherlands Antilles

Rico, the Virgin Islands

and Netherlands

(U.S.), Samoa (U.S.) and

New Guinea

Guam

New Zealand, together with

Upper Volta

Western Samoa

Uruguay

Niger

Vietnam

Nigeria

Yugoslavia

Norway

Zaire

Philippines

Zambia

GIVEN under the Official Seal of the Government, this 20th day of

December, 1976.

LIAM MAC COSGAIR,

Taoiseach.

EXPLANATORY NOTE.

The amendment extends the effect of the principal Order to Benin, Cameroon, Egypt, German Democratic Republic, Iraq, Jordan, Sri Lanka and Zaire.

S.I. No. 316 of 1976.

PATENTS, DESIGNS AND TRADE MARKS (INTERNATIONAL ARRANGEMENTS) (AMENDMENT) ORDER, 1976.

The Government, in exercise of the powers conferred on them by

section 152

(5) of the

Industrial and Commercial Property (Protection) Act, 1927

(No. 16 of 1927), as adapted by

section 2

of the

Executive Powers (Consequential Provisions) Act, 1937

(No. 20 of 1937),

sections 8

(2) and

70

(5) of the

Trade Marks Act, 1963

(No. 9 of 1963), and

sections 5

(1) and

93

of the

Patents Act, 1964

(No. 12 of 1964), hereby order as follows