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Regulations to a document that is open to public inspection is a reference to a document that may be inspected by the public at the Patent Office.
 (4) If the Commissioner gives a document to a person, the document is taken to have been given to the person on the day the document is dated by the Commissioner.
 (5) The Commissioner may give a document to a person by:
 (a) making the document available to the person in an electronic form; and
 (b) notifying the person that the document is available.
 (6) A requirement in these Regulations to give information to the Commissioner or to another person (whether the expression 'give', 'tell', 'inform' or another expression is used) is a requirement to give the information in writing, unless the contrary intention appears.
 (7) For these Regulations, a period expressed in months is to be worked out in the way described in Rule 80.2 of the PCT.

1.3A  Meaning of completed in relation to a search
  For these regulations:
A search is completed on the earliest of:
 (a) the date, if any, specified in the report as the date that the report was issued; and
 (b) the date, if any, specified in the report as the date that the search was completed; and
 (c) the date that the search results were issued to the applicant or patentee by the foreign patent office.

1.4  Meaning of Convention country
  For the definition of Convention country in subsection 29B(5) of the Act, the following countries are prescribed:
 (a) a foreign country that is a signatory to the Paris Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property of 20 March 1883, as in force from time to time;
 (b) a foreign country that is a full member of the World Trade Organization.
Note 1: For signatories to the Paris Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property, see www.wipo.int.
Note 2: For full members of the World Trade Organization, see www.wto.org.

1.4A  Meaning of eligible importing country
  For the definition of eligible importing country in Schedule 1 to the Act, the following kinds of foreign countries are prescribed:
 (a) a WTO member that notifies the Council for TRIPS, in accordance with the Annex to the TRIPS Agreement, of the member's intention to use the system set out in Article 31bis of the TRIPS Agreement and the Annex to that Agreement as an importer;
 (b) a least developed country.

1.5  Deposit requirements: prescribed period
 (1) For paragraph 6(c) of the Act, the prescribed period is:
 (a) if the Commissioner makes a declaration under subsection 42(1) of the Act in relation to the specification concerned—the period mentioned in subregulation (2); or
 (b) in any other case:
 (i) for a