Note: Saving provision.[Act A1137]
The amendments to the principal Act shall not affect any preliminary examination, any request for substantive examination or modified substantive examination, any application for the grant of a patent or application for a certificate for utility innovation or any patent or utility innovation certificate granted, as the case may be, made under the principal Act before the appointed date and the amended provisions shall apply to the examination, request, application or grant, as the case may be, as if the provisions had not been so amended.
[Act A1137:s.17]