Tony Killeen (Clare, Fianna Fail)

Amendment No. 5 relates to a drafting point to facilitate the introduction of a new subsection (2D) which is to follow subsection (2C). Amendment No. 6 also relates to section 26. It proposes to insert the following paragraph between lines 39 and 40, which is the new subsection (2D) to which I referred. It states: "Where the Controller decides to allow a request under this section to correct an error or mistake in a withdrawal of an application for a patent and notice of the request was published in the Journal under subsection (2A), the Controller shall make an order restoring the application and publish notice of the restoration in the Journal". This is clearly to provide that where the controller decides to restore an application withdrawn in error, the notice of the request to restore the application has been published under subsection (2A), and that he is in a position to do that.