STATUTORY INSTRUMENTS 
2006 No. 1833 
DESIGNS 
The Design Right (Semiconductor Topographies) (Amendment) 
Regulations 2006 
Made  - - - - 10th July 2006 
Laid before Parliament  10th July 2006 
Coming into force  - - 1st August 2006 
The Secretary of State has been designated for the purposes of section 2(2) of the European 
Communities Act 1972( a) in relation to intellectual property (including both registered and 
unregistered rights)( b). 
Accordingly the Secretary of State, in exercise of the powers conferred upon him by section 2(2) 
of that Act, makes the following Regulations: 
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( c) 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 th e Design Right (Semiconductor Topographies) 
Regulations 1989.””. 
4. For the Schedule to those Regulati ons (additional classes of qualifying persons)( a) there shall 
be substituted the Schedule (qualifying countries) set out in Schedule 1 to these Regulations (new 
schedule for the Design Right (Semi conductor Topographies) Regulations 1989). 
                                                                                                                                                              
 
 
(a) 1972 c. 68. 
(b) SI 2006/608. 
(c) SI 1989/1100.  2 Revocations 
5. The instruments set out in Schedule 2 (revo cations) are revoked to the extent specified. 
 
 Sainsbury of Turville 
 Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Science and Innovation 
10th July 2006 Department of Trade and Industry 
 
                                                                                                                                                               
(a) This Schedule has been substituted or amended by SI 1993/2497, 1992/400, 1991/2237, 1990/1003 and 1989/2147. All of 
these Instruments are revoked by this Instrument.  3  
 SCHEDULE 1 regulation 4 
NEW SCHEDULE FOR THE DESIGN RIGHT (SEMICONDUCTOR 
TOPOGRAPHIES) REGULATIONS 1989 
“SCHEDULE 
QUALIFYING 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  4 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  5 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  6 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”  7  
 SCHEDULE 2 regulation 5 
REVOCATIONS 
 
Title and number Extent of revocation 
  
The Design Right (Semiconductor Topographies) 
(Amendment) Regulations 1989 (SI 1989/2147) The whole Regulations. 
  
The Design Right (Semiconductor Topographies) 
(Amendment) Regulations 1990 (SI 1990/1003) The whole Regulations. 
  
The Design Right (Semiconductor Topographies) 
(Amendment) Regulations 1991 (SI 1991/2237) The whole Regulations. 
  
The Design Right (Semiconductor Topographies) 
(Amendment) Regulations 1992 (SI 1992/400) The whole Regulations. 
  
The Design Right (Semiconductor Topographies) 
(Amendment) Regulations 1993 (SI 1993/2497) The whole Regulations. EXPLANATORY NOTE 
(This note is not part  of the Regulations) 
These Regulations amend the Design Right (S emiconductor Topographies) Re gulations 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 t opographies of semiconductor  products to persons from 
a member of the World Trade Organi zation (94/824/EC) (L 349, 31.12.1994, p. 201). 
The 1989 Regulations modify the application of P art 3 (design right) of the Copyright, Designs 
and Patents Act 1989 (c. 48) (“1988 Ac t”) to semi-conductor topographies. 
Regulation 3  amends regulation 4 of the 1989 Regul ations. Regulation 4(2) of the 1989 
Regulations included a modified version of secti on 217 of the 1988 Act. The new provision 
substituted by regulation 3  of these Regulations provides a m odified 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 Intellect ual Property Rights (Cm. 3044-6, 
3080, 3263-4, 3268-9, 3271, 3275-7 and 3282)). 
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