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(1) This Act may be called the Patents (Amendment) Act, 2002.
(2) It shall come into force on such1date as the Central Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, appoint;2 and different dates may be appointed for different provisions of this Act and any reference in any such provision to the commencement of this Act shall be construed as a reference to the coming into force of that provision.
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1. By Notification No. S.O.561(E) Dated 20.05.2003 the Central Government hereby appoints the 20th day of May, 2003 as the date on which the following provisions of the Act shall come into force, namely:-
1. Sub-clauses (ab) and (ac) of clause (a), clauses (b), (c), (d), (e), (f), (g), (h) and sub-clauses (A) and (C) of clause (i) of section 3;
2. Section 4 to section 34
3. Clause (b) of section 36;
4. Section 37 to section 46
5. Section 48 to section 63
6. Clauses (a), (b), (c) and (e) of section 64;
7. Section 65 and section 66.
2. Enforcement date for "Sections 3(a)(a) and 3(i)(u)(b), 35, 36(a), 47 and 64(d)" as notified by Notification No. S.O. 510(E) Dated 02.04.2007 is 02.04.2007.