The Designs (Amendment) Rules 1987

• Citation: S.I. 1987/287
• Sections: 2

Section 1

These Rules may be cited as the Designs (Amendment) Rules 1987 and shall come into force on 24th March 1987.

Section 2

For rule 69 of the Designs Rules 1984 there shall be substituted the following:

(69)

(1) The following shall be excluded days for all purposes under the Act:

(a) all Sundays,

(b) Good Friday and Christmas Day;

(c) any day specified as or proclaimed to be a bank holiday in England in or under section 1 of the Banking and Financial Dealings Act 1971 ;

(d) any Saturday immediately preceded by one of the above.

(2) Saturdays not falling within paragraph (1) above shall be excluded days for all purposes except the filing of new applications for the registration of designs which are not Convention applications.