The Patents Rules,2003
Section 14. Amendments to specifications
1[Amendments to specifications. (1) When a provisional or complete specification or any drawing accompanying it has been received by the applicant or his agent for amendment, and amendment is duly made thereon, the page incorporating such amendment shall be retyped and submitted to form a continuous document. Amendments shall not be made by slips pasted on, or as footnotes or by writing in the margin of any of the said documents.
(2) The amended documents shall be returned to the Controller together with the superseded pages or drawings, if any, duly marked, cancelled and initialled by the applicant or his agent. Copies of any pages that have been retyped or added and of any drawing that has been added or substantially amended shall be sent in duplicate.]
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1. Substituted by the Patents (Amdt.) Rules,2005, w.e.f. 1-1-2005.