STATUTORY INSTRUMENTS

1995 No. 2988
DESIGNS

The Designs (Convention Countries) (Amendment) Order 1995

At the Court at Buckingham Palace, the 23rd day of November 1995
Present,
The Queen's Most Excellent Majesty in Council

Her Majesty, in exercise of the powers conferred upon 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-

of the Schedule to this Order, and

N. H. Nicholls
Clerk of the Privy Council

Article 2

SCHEDULE
CONVENTION COUNTRIES

PART 1

Albania

Costa Rica

Peru

Saint Kitts and Nevis

Saint Lucia

Saint Vincent and the Grenadines

Singapore

Turkmenistan

Venezuela

PART 2

Azerbaijan

PART 3

Antigua and Barbuda

Bahrain

Belize

Bolivia

Botswana

Brunei Darussalam

Colombia

Djibouti

Dominica

Guatemala

Jamaica

Kuwait

Macau

Maldives

Mozambique

Myanmar

Namibia

Nicaragua

Sierra Leone

Thailand

EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order, made pursuant to section 13(1) of the Registered Designs Act 1949, declares the countries specified in the Schedule to be convention countries for the purposes of all provisions of that Act. The countries specified in Part 1 and Part 2 of the Schedule to this Order have acceded to the International Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property ("the Paris Convention") (as revised at Stockholm in 1967) (Cmnd. 4431) since the last order (S.I. 1994/3219) was made. The countries specified in Part 3 of the Schedule to this Order are countries not party to the Paris Convention but are countries each of which is party to 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). They are designated as convention countries (and the appropriate amendments are made to the 1994 Order) from the date on which that part of the Agreement relating to intellectual property, including matters relating to designs, enters into force for the United Kingdom.

11949 c.88.

2S.I. 1994/3219.