Commonwealth Numbered Acts

PATENTS ACT 1990 No. 83, 1990 - SECT 8

8. Subject to the regulations, account must not be taken, for the purposes of
this Act, of a disclosure in a specification or other document filed in
respect of, and at the same time as, a basic application unless the following
documents are filed within the prescribed period:

   (a)  a copy of the specification or document;

   (b)  if the specification or document is not in English - a translation of
        the specification or document into English.
(Note: "basic application" is defined in Schedule 1: see also Part 2 of
Chapter 8.)