Commonwealth Consolidated Regulations

PATENTS REGULATIONS 1991 - REG 22.20

    If, for the purposes of the PCT, the Patent Office is:

  (a)   a receiving Office; or

  (b)   an International Searching Authority; or

  (c)   an International Preliminary Examining Authority;

the Commissioner and the Patent Office may perform the functions under the PCT of a receiving Office, an International Searching Authority or an International Preliminary Examining Authority, as the case requires, in relation to an international application.