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Time for acceptance of complete specification.
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18.—(1) If a complete specification is not accepted within the period of fifteen months from the date of the application or, where that period is extended under this section, before the expiration of the last extension of such period the application shall at the expiration of such period or such extension thereof (as the case may be) become void.
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(2) In any case in which an application for a British patent was pending when the complete specification was left, the controller may grant without the payment of any fee such extension or series of extensions of the said period of fifteen months as he shall think fit, but no such extension shall be granted unless the same is applied for before the expiration of the said period or the last previous extension thereof (as the case may be).
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(3) In any case not coming within the foregoing sub-section the controller shall, on application therefor being made to him and the prescribed fee being paid before the expiration of the said period of fifteen months, grant such extension, not exceeding three months, of the said period of fifteen months as is so applied for.
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(4) Whenever an appeal from a decision of the controller in relation to the complete specification is pending at the expiration of the said period of fifteen months or any extension thereof made under this section, the controller shall on application made to him therefor at any time grant without the payment of any fee an extension or further extension (as the case may be) of such period until the expiration of twenty-one days after the final decision of such appeal.
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