Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2024C00455:section:176
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2024C00455
Segment Type: section
Provision Reference: s 176
Character Range: 209145–210161

176  International applications treated as applications under this Act
  Where:
 (a) an international application specifies Australia as a designated State; and
 (b) as a result of a prohibition order or of anything done in reliance on section 175, the application is, under the PCT, to be considered as having been withdrawn; and
 (c) the applicant files, within the prescribed period, a written request that the application be treated as an application under this Act for a standard patent; and
 (d) the applicant files any prescribed documents and pays the prescribed fee;
then, except as otherwise prescribed:
 (e) the application must be treated as requested; and
 (f) the description, claims, drawings, graphics and photographs in the application must be treated as a complete specification filed in respect of the application; and
 (g) the application and specification must be treated as having been filed on the date on which the international application was filed.

Chapter 18—Miscellaneous offences