The Designs (Convention Countries) Order 1994

Made: 14th December 1994

Coming into force: 13th January 1995

At the Court at Buckingham Palace, the 14th day of December 1994 Present, The Queen’s Most Excellent Majesty in Council

Her Majesty, in exercise of the powers conferred upon Her by section 13(1) and section 37(5) of the Registered Designs Act 1949[^f00001], is pleased, by and with the advice of Her Privy Council, to order, and it is hereby ordered, as follows:—

1

This Order may be cited as the Designs (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 all the provisions of the Registered Designs Act 1949.

3

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

SCHEDULE 1 — CONVENTION 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'Ivoire

• Croatia

• Cuba

• Cyprus

• Czech Republic

• Denmark, including the Faroe Islands

• Dominican Republic

• Ecuador

• 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 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

SCHEDULE 2 — REVOCATIONS

Signed

R.P. Bulling — Deputy Clerk of the Privy Council

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order, made pursuant to section 13(1) of the Registered Designs Act 1949, declares the countries specified in Schedule 1 to be convention countries for the purposes of all the provisions of that Act. 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, in so far as they have effect in relation to designs, are made or treated as having been made under section 13(1) of the Registered Designs Act 1949. This Order revokes the orders making the earlier declarations in respect of designs and brings together all declarations in respect of such countries for the purposes of all the provisions of the Registered Designs Act 1949 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.1993/1257) 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.

Footnotes

[^f00001]: 1949 c. 88.