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PATENTS REGULATIONS 1991 - REG 22.17

Incapacity of certain persons

  (1)   In this regulation:

"mental dysfunction" means a disturbance or defect, to a severely disabling degree, of perceptual interpretation, comprehension, reasoning, learning, judgment, memory, motivation, or emotion.

  (2)   If a person is incapable of doing anything required or permitted by the Act or these Regulations to be done because of infancy or of mental dysfunction or physical disability or disease, a court may, on the application of a person acting on behalf of the incapable person or of another person interested in the doing of the thing:

  (a)   do that thing; or

  (b)   appoint a person to do the thing;

in the name, and on behalf, of the incapable person.

  (3)   A thing done in the name of, and on behalf of, an incapable person is taken to have been done by that person as if the person had not been incapable when the thing was done.


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