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22  Application of amendments
(1) The amendments made by items 8 and 18 apply in relation to information that is made publicly available at or after the time those items commence.
(2) The amendments made by items 9, 10 and 11 apply in relation to applications made at or after the time those items commence.
(3) The amendment made by item 14 applies in relation to provisional applications made at or after the time that item commences.
(4) The amendments made by items 15 and 16 apply in relation to:
 (a) patents for which the complete application is made at or after the time those items commence; and
 (b) standard patents for which the application had been made before the time those items commence, if the applicant had not asked for an examination of the patent request and specification for the application under section 44 of the Patents Act 1990 before that time; and
 (c) innovation patents granted at or after the time those items commence, if the complete application to which the patent relates had been made before that time; and
 (d) complete patent applications made at or after the time those items commence; and
 (e) complete applications for standard patents made before the time those items commence, if the applicant had not asked for an examination of the patent request and specification for the application under section 44 of the Patents Act 1990 before that time; and
 (f) complete applications for innovation patents made before the time those items commence, if a patent had not been granted in relation to the application on or before that time; and
 (g) innovation patents granted before the time those items commence, if:
 (i) the Commissioner had not decided to examine the complete specification relating to the patent under section 101A of the Patents Act 1990 before that time; and
 (ii) the patentee or any other person had not asked the Commissioner to examine the complete specification relating to the patent under section 101A of the Patents Act 1990 before that time.
(5) The amendment made by item 20 applies on and after the day that item commences in relation to patents granted before, on or after that commencement.

[Minister's second reading speech made in—
House of Representatives on 19 March 2014
Senate on 25 November 2014]

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