Singapore legislation

Clause 4

of Patents (Amendment) Bill

Clause 4

Amendment of section 56

Section 56 of the Patents Act is amended —

(a)

by deleting the word “provision” in subsection (1) and substituting the word “section”;

(b)

by inserting, immediately after subsection (1), the following subsection:“(1A) Without prejudice to the generality of subsection (1), subject to sections 60, 61 and 62, but notwithstanding any other section of this Act, the Government and any party authorised in writing by the Government may import any relevant health product, and do anything in relation to any relevant health product so imported, for or during a national emergency or other circumstances of extreme urgency, if the Government has given the Council for TRIPS a relevant notification in relation to the relevant health product.”; and

(c)

by deleting subsection (4) and substituting the following subsection:“(4) In this section —“integrated circuit” means a product, in its final or an intermediate form, in which the elements, at least one of which is an active element, and some or all of the interconnections are integrally formed in and on, or in or on, a piece of material and which is intended to perform an electronic function;“relevant notification” means a notification that satisfies the requirements of —

(a)

paragraph 2(a) of the Doha Declaration Implementation Decision; or

(b)

paragraph 2(a) of the Annex to the TRIPS Agreement.”.

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