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Volume 49, No. 5

B.C. Reg. 40/2006

The British Columbia Gazette,

Part II

March 14, 2006

B.C. Reg. 40/2006, deposited March 9, 2006, pursuant to the INTERNATIONAL FINANCIAL ACTIVITY ACT [Sections 2 and 65]. Order in Council 136/2006, approved and ordered March 9, 2006.

On the recommendation of the undersigned, the Administrator, by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council, orders that, effective January 1, 2006, the International Financial Activity Regulation, B.C. Reg. 327/2004, is amended as set out in the Schedule.

— R. THORPE, Minister of Small Business and Revenue and Minister Responsible for Deregulation; G. CAMPBELL, Presiding Member of the Executive Council.

Schedule

1 The International Financial Activity Regulation, B.C. Reg. 327/2004, is amended by adding the following section:

International financial activity — patents

(1) For the purposes of

section 2 (2) (q.1) and (q.2) of the Act, the class of patents prescribed is those patents

(

a) whose terms have not expired or that have not otherwise ceased to be in force, and

(

b) that have a primary classification number, assigned in accordance with the International Patent Classification, 8th edition, adopted under the Strasbourg Agreement Concerning the International Patent Classification, set out in the following table:

Column 1

Column 2

Column 3

Column 4

International Patent Classification

Item

Section

Class(es)

Subclass(es)

Group(s)

1/00, 1/02

and 3/00

3/00

07 and 08

M, N,

P and Q

3/00, 3/20,

3/22 and 3/24

33/02, 33/03,

33/04, 33/08,

33/12, 33/15,

33/48, 33/483,

33/487, 33/49,

33/493, 33/497

and 33/50

(2) As an exception to subsection (1), the class of patents prescribed does not include a patent relating to tobacco or any product made of tobacco other than a product that purports to assist a person to cease using tobacco.

(3) For the purposes of reading the table set out in subsection (1), if for an Item one or more of the columns describing the Subclass or Group is blank, then the entire Subclass or Group is included in the respective Class or Subclass.

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