Citation and commencement

1.  These Regulations may be cited as the Design Right (Semiconductor Topographies) (Amendment) Regulations 2006 and shall come into force on 1st August 2006.

Amendment to the Design Right (Semiconductor Topographies) Regulations 1989

2.  The Design Right (Semiconductor Topographies) Regulations 1989(3) shall be amended as follows.

3.  For regulation 4(2) there shall be substituted—

“(2) Part III of the Act has effect as if for section 217(3) there was substituted the following—

“(3) In this section “qualifying country” means—

(a)the United Kingdom,

(b)another member State,

(c)the Isle of Man, Gibraltar, the Channel Islands or any colony,

(d)a country listed in the Schedule to the Design Right (Semiconductor Topographies) Regulations 1989.””.

4.  For the Schedule to those Regulations (additional classes of qualifying persons)(4) there shall be substituted the Schedule (qualifying countries) set out in Schedule 1 to these Regulations (new schedule for the Design Right (Semiconductor Topographies) Regulations 1989).

Revocations

5.  The instruments set out in Schedule 2 (revocations) are revoked to the extent specified.

regulation 4

SCHEDULE 1NEW SCHEDULE FOR THE DESIGN RIGHT (SEMICONDUCTOR TOPOGRAPHIES) REGULATIONS 1989

“SCHEDULEQUALIFYING COUNTRIES

• Albania

• Angola

• Antigua and Barbuda

• Argentina

• Armenia

• Australia

• Bahrain, Kingdom of

• Bangladesh

• Barbados

• Belize

• Benin

• Bolivia

• Botswana

• Brazil

• Brunei Darussalam

• Bulgaria

• Burkina Faso

• Burundi

• Cambodia

• Cameroon

• Canada

• Central African Republic

• Chad

• Chile

• China

• Colombia

• Congo

• Costa Rica

• Côte d'Ivoire

• Croatia

• Cuba

• Democratic Republic of the Congo

• Djibouti

• Dominica

• Dominican Republic

• Ecuador

• Egypt

• El Salvador

• Fiji

• Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia

• French overseas territories

• Gabon

• The Gambia

• Georgia

• Ghana

• Grenada

• Guatemala

• Guinea

• Guinea Bissau

• Guyana

• Haiti

• Honduras

• Hong Kong

• Iceland

• India

• Indonesia

• Israel

• Jamaica

• Japan

• Jordan

• Kenya

• Korea, Republic of

• Kuwait

• Kyrgyz Republic

• Lesotho

• Liechtenstein

• Macao, China

• Madagascar

• Malawi

• Malaysia

• Maldives

• Mali

• Mauritania

• Mauritius

• Mexico

• Moldova

• Mongolia

• Morocco

• Mozambique

• Myanmar

• Namibia

• Nepal

• Netherlands Antilles

• New Zealand

• Nicaragua

• Niger

• Nigeria

• Norway

• Oman

• Pakistan

• Panama

• Papua New Guinea

• Paraguay

• Peru

• Philippines

• Qatar

• Romania

• Rwanda

• Saint Kitts and Nevis

• Saint Lucia

• Saint Vincent & the Grenadines

• Saudi Arabia

• Senegal

• Sierra Leone

• Singapore

• Solomon Islands

• South Africa

• Sri Lanka

• Suriname

• Swaziland

• Switzerland

• Chinese Taipei

• Tanzania

• Thailand

• Togo

• Trinidad and Tobago

• Tunisia

• Turkey

• Uganda

• United Arab Emirates

• United States of America

• Uruguay

• Venezuela

• Zambia

• Zimbabwe”

regulation 5

SCHEDULE 2REVOCATIONS

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations amend the Design Right (Semiconductor Topographies) Regulations 1989 (SI 1989/1100) (“1989 Regulations”) to give effect to the Council Decision of 22nd December 1994 on the extension of the legal protection of topographies of semiconductor products to persons from a member of the World Trade Organization (94/824/EC) (L 349, 31.12.1994, p. 201).

The 1989 Regulations modify the application of Part 3 (design right) of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1989 (c. 48) (“1988 Act”) to semi-conductor topographies.

Regulation 3 amends regulation 4 of the 1989 Regulations. Regulation 4(2) of the 1989 Regulations included a modified version of section 217 of the 1988 Act. The new provision substituted by regulation 3 of these Regulations provides a modified version of section 217(3) of the 1988 Act. The rest of that section will therefore apply to topographies in its normal form.

Regulation 4 substitutes a new Schedule for the Schedule to the 1989 Regulations. The new Schedule includes a list of qualifying countries, other than member States of the European Community, which are parties to the Agreement establishing the World Trade Organisation (including the Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (Cm. 3044-6, 3080, 3263-4, 3268-9, 3271, 3275-7 and 3282)).