Patents (Amendment) Act 2006

The Paris Convention (section 60 of 1996 Act).

43.— Section 60 of the 1996 Act is amended in subsection (1)—

(a) in paragraph (a), by deleting “and”,

(b) by inserting the following after paragraph (a):

“(aa) “Agreement establishing the World Trade Organisation” means the Agreement establishing the World Trade Organisation done at Marrakesh on 15 April 1994, as amended or supplemented by any protocol to that Agreement which is for the time being in force in the State;”,

and

(c) in paragraph (b), by substituting “the Paris Convention or the Agreement establishing the World Trade Organisation” for “that Convention”.