Statutory Instruments
2018 No. 1052
Exiting The European Union
Designs
The Design Right (Semiconductor Topographies) (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2018
Sift requirements satisfied
5th September 2018
Made
9th October 2018
Laid before Parliament
9th October 2018
Coming into force in accordance with regulation 1
The requirements of paragraph 3(2) of Schedule 7 to the European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018( 1 ) (relating to the appropriate Parliamentary procedure for these Regulations) have been satisfied.
The Secretary of State makes the following Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by section 8(1) of, and paragraph 21(b) of Schedule 7 to, that Act( 2 ).
Citation and commencement
1. These Regulations may be cited as the Design Right (Semiconductor Topographies) (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2018 and come into force on exit day.
Amendment of the Design Right (Semiconductor Topographies) Regulations 1989
2. —(1)Regulation 4 (qualification) of the Design Right (Semiconductor Topographies) Regulations 1989( 3 ) is amended as follows.
(2) In paragraph (2) for “another” substitute “a”.
(3) In paragraph (4)—
(a) for “every member State of the European Economic Community” substitute “the United Kingdom”;
(b) for “any member State” substitute “the United Kingdom”;
(c) omit from “and subsection (4)” to the end of the sentence.
Sam Gyimah
Minister of State for Universities, Science, Research and Innovation
Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
9th October 2018
See section 20(1) of that Act for a definition of “Minister of the Crown”.
S.I. 1989/1100 , as amended by S.I. 2006/1833 and 2008/1434 .