1. This Order may be cited as the Patents, Designs and Marks Act 1986 (Commencement No. 1) Order 1986.

2. The following provisions of the Patents, Designs and Marks Act 1986 shall come into force on 1st October 1986:

• Section 1, so far as it relates to paragraphs 1 and 2 of Schedule 1.

• Section 3(1), so far as it relates to the repeal of sections 57 and 58 of the Trade Marks Act 1938.

• Schedule 1, paragraphs 1 and 2.

• Schedule 3, Part I, so far as it relates repeal of the said sections 57 and 58.

EXPLANATORY NOTE

This Order brings into force on 1st October 1986 the provisions of the Patents, Designs and Marks Act 1986 which substitute a new section 1 of the Trade Marks Act 1938, amend section 34 of that Act and repeal sections 57 and 58 of that Act.

Section 4 came into force on Royal assent.

Sections 2 and 3(2), Schedule 2 and Part II of Schedule 3 come into force on 1st October 1986 by virtue of section 4(7) and the Trade Marks (Amendment) Act 1984 (Commencement) Order 1986 (S.I. 1986/1273).

Sections 1 and 3(1), so far as they relate to the Registered Designs Act 1949 (c. 88) and the Patents Act 1977 (c.37), paragraphs 3 and 4 of Schedule 1 and Part I of Schedule 3, so far as it relates to those Acts, remain to be brought into force.