1. This Order may be cited as the Patents (Convention Countries) Order 1994 and shall come into force on 13th January 1995.

2. The countries specified in Schedule 1 to this Order are convention countries for the purposes of section 5 of the Patents Act 1977.

3. Insofar as they have effect in relation to patents the Orders specified in Schedule 2 to this Order are hereby revoked.

Article 2

SCHEDULE 1CONVENTION COUNTRIES

Algeria

Argentina

Armenia

Australia

Austria

Bahamas

Bangladesh

Barbados

Belarus

Belgium

Benin

Bolivia

Bosnia and Herzegovina

Brazil

Bulgaria

Burkina Faso

Burundi

Cameroon

Canada

Central African Republic

Chad

Chile

China

Congo

Cote d'Ivorie

Croatia

Cuba

Cyprus

Czech Republic

Denmark, including the Faroe Islands

Dominican Republic

Egypt

El Salvador

Estonia

Finland

France, including all Overseas Departments and Territories

Gabon

Gambia

Georgia

Germany

Ghana

Greece

Guinea

Guinea-Bissau

Guyana

Haiti

Holy See

Honduras

Hong Kong

Hungary

Iceland

India

Indonesia

Iran, Islamic Republic of

Iraq

Ireland, Republic of

Israel

Italy

Japan

Jordan

Kazakhstan

Kenya

Korea, Democratic People's Republic of

Korea, Republic of

Kyrgyzstan

Latvia

Lebanon

Lesotho

Liberia

Libya

Liechtenstein

Lithuania

Luxembourg

Macedonia, the former Yugoslav Republic of

Madagascar

Malawi

Malaysia

Mali

Malta

Mauritania

Mauritius

Mexico

Moldova

Monaco

Mongolia

Morocco

Netherlands, including Netherlands Antilles and Aruba

New Zealand

Niger

Nigeria

Norway

Pakistan

Paraguay

Philippines

Poland

Portugal

Romania

Russian Federation

Rwanda

San Marino

Senegal

Slovakia

Slovenia

South Africa

Spain

Sri Lanka

Sudan

Suriname

Swaziland

Sweden

Switzerland

Syria

Tajikistan

Tanzania, United Republic of

Togo

Trinidad and Tobago

Tunisia

Turkey

Uganda

Ukraine

United States of America, including all Territories and Possessions, including Puerto Rico

Uruguay

Uzbekistan

Vietnam

Yugoslavia

Zaire

Zambia

Zimbabwe

Article 3

SCHEDULE 2REVOCATIONS

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order, pursuant to section 90(1) of the Patents Act 1977, declares the countries specified in Schedue 1 to be convention countries for the purposes of section 5 of the Patents Act 1977. The majority of countries specified in 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). Most of them have been declared to be convention countries pursuant to 67 separate orders, the earliest of which was made in 1901 and the last in 1993. All these orders, so far as they have effect in relation to patents, are made or treated as having been made under section 90(1) of the Patents Act 1977 for the purposes of section 5 of that Act. This Order revokes the orders making the earlier declarations in respect of patents and brings together all declarations in respect of such countries for the purposes of section 5 of the Patents Act 1977 into one instrument.

Included in the Order are also the following countries which have acceded as such to the Paris Convention since the last order (S.I.1993/1258) was made: Armenia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bolivia, El Salvador, Estonia, Georgia, Guyana, Honduras, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Liberia, Lithuania, the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Moldova, Paraguay, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan.