Singapore legislation
Clause 7
Clause 7
Amendment of section 66
Section 66 of the Patents Act is amended —
by deleting the words “subsection (3)” in the 1st line of subsection (2)(g) and substituting the words “subsections (3) and (5A)”;
by inserting, immediately before the words “it consists of” in subsection (2)(i), the words “subject to subsection (5A),”;
by inserting, immediately after subsection (5), the following subsection:“(5A) Subsection (2)(g) and (i) shall not apply to the import or sale of, or the offer to sell, any relevant health product produced for export to any country, other than Singapore, which is an eligible importing member of the World Trade Organisation.”; and
by deleting subsection (6) and substituting the following subsection:“(6) In this section —“eligible importing member”, in relation to the World Trade Organisation, means a member of the World Trade Organisation which —
is a least-developed country; or
has given the Council for TRIPS the notification referred to in —
paragraph 1(b) of the Doha Declaration Implementation Decision; or
paragraph 1(b) of the Annex to the TRIPS Agreement;“exempted aircraft” means an aircraft to which section 5 of the Air Navigation Act (Cap. 6) applies;“relevant ship” and “relevant aircraft, hovercraft or vehicle” mean, respectively, a ship and an aircraft, a hovercraft or a vehicle registered in, or belonging to, any country, other than Singapore, which is —
a party to the Paris Convention; or
a member of the World Trade Organisation.”.