Directions: hours of business and business days
Published 6 July 2011
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Introduction
1. The registrar has made the following Directions under section 80(1) of the Trade Marks Act 1994.
2. These Directions come into force on 15 July 2011.
3. The Directions of the same title which were given in November 1994 and came into force on 31 October 1994 are revoked.
Interpretation
4. In these Directions:
“the Office” means the Patent Office;
“the Act” means the Trade Marks Act 1994
“business” means business transacted by the public under the Act or any class of such business;
“non-business day” means a day excluded for any such business or class of business;
“applications” means applications for trade marks filed under the Act;
“forms” means documents containing the information required by the relevant Trade Marks Forms as set out in Directions under section 66 of the Act.
Hours of business
5. The Office shall be open at all times for the filing of applications in respect of which no declaration for the purpose of sections 35 or 36 of the Act is made.
6. The Office shall be open at all times on Monday to Friday for the purpose of filing applications, forms and documents (except applications in respect of which no declaration for the purpose of sections 35 or 36 of the Act is made).
7. The Office shall be open on Monday to Friday between 09:00 and 17:00 for all other types of business not detailed above.
Non-business days
8.
The following shall be non-business days for all purposes under the Act, except for the filing of applications in respect of which no declaration for the purpose of sections 35 or 36 of the Act is made:
(a) All Saturdays and Sundays
(b) Good Friday and Christmas Day
(c) A day which is specified or proclaimed to be a bank holiday in or under section 1 of the Banking and Financial Dealings Act 1971.
9. Tuesday 4 January 2000 is a non-business day for all purposes under the Act.
John Alty
Comptroller-General of Patents, Designs and Trade Marks
July 2011