Commonwealth Numbered Acts

PATENTS ACT 1990 No. 83, 1990 - SECT 176

176. Where:

   (a)  an international application specifies Australia as a designated
        State; and

   (b)  as a result of a prohibition order or of anything done in reliance on
        section 175, the application is, under the PCT, to be considered as
        having been withdrawn; and

   (c)  the applicant files, within the prescribed period, a written request
        signed by the applicant that the application be treated as an
        application under this Act for a standard patent or for a petty
        patent; and

   (d)  the applicant files any prescribed documents and pays the prescribed
        fee; then, except as otherwise prescribed:

   (e)  the application must be treated as requested; and

   (f)  the description, claims and drawings in the application must be
        treated as a complete specification filed in respect of the
        application; and

   (g)  the application and specification must be treated as having been filed
        on the date on which the international application was filed.