s 16 Industrial application
16.—(1) Subject to subsection (2), an invention is taken to be capable of industrial application if it can be made or used in any kind of industry, including agriculture.
(2) An invention of a method of treatment of the human or animal body by surgery or therapy or of diagnosis practised on the human or animal body is not taken to be capable of industrial application.
(3) Subsection (2) does not prevent a product consisting of a substance or composition from being treated as capable of industrial application merely because it is invented for use in any such method.
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