1. Short title and commencement. - (1) These rules may be called the Patents Rules, 1972.
(2) Save as otherwise provided in these rules, these rules shall come into force on the twentieth day of April 1972.
Provided that rule 21, rules 49 to 53, rule 73 and rules 93 to 105, which relate to sub-section (2) of section 12, sub-section (2) of section 13, section 28, section 68 and sections 125 to 132 of the Act respectively shall come into force on the date on which the said sections are brought into force.
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