Propose a change

Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988

Write the words of this act the way you think they should read. Solon shows your change as a redline against the published text and pins it to that exact text, so it can never be applied to wording you did not see.

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What to do with it
As published

305 Commencement.

(1) The following provisions of this Act come into force on Royal Assent— paragraphs 24 and 29 of Schedule 5 (patents: effect of filing international application for patent and power to extend time limits); section 301 and Schedule 6 (provisions for the benefit of the Hospital for Sick Children). (2) Sections 293 and 294 (licences of right) come into force at the end of the period of two months beginning with the passing of this Act. (3) The other provisions of this Act come into force on such day as the Secretary of State may appoint by order made by statutory instrument, and different days may be appointed for different provisions and different purposes.

Your change, as a redline

305 Commencement.

(1) The following provisions of this Act come into force on Royal Assent— paragraphs 24 and 29 of Schedule 5 (patents: effect of filing international application for patent and power to extend time limits); section 301 and Schedule 6 (provisions for the benefit of the Hospital for Sick Children). (2) Sections 293 and 294 (licences of right) come into force at the end of the period of two months beginning with the passing of this Act. (3) The other provisions of this Act come into force on such day as the Secretary of State may appoint by order made by statutory instrument, and different days may be appointed for different provisions and different purposes.

One line that says what changes, such as "Halve the dog tax".

Who it helps, what it costs, what it fixes. It is what persuades people to support it.

A proposal here is not law. Support on Solon is evidence that people want the change; the official route says what it takes to make it law.

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Ask what your change would do, who would gain and who would bear a cost, and where something like it is already law. The assistant reads your draft as it stands, cites the law and the studies it finds, and takes no side. What you file stays yours.

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Think it through
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