Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

PATENTS ACT 1990 - SECT 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 .]