Industrial Designs (International Registration) Rules, 2014 · As enacted · Part III
15. (1)
Official textFrom Attorney General's Chambers, unchanged
Subject to the provisions of these Rules 1 an international application may be made through the Registry.
The international application may be made only by any of the following persons 724
fa} a person who is a national of a State that is a Contracting Party;
a person who is a national of a State member of an inter-governmental organisation that is a Contracting Party;
{c}
a person who is domiciled in or has a habitual residence in the territory of a Contracting Party; or fd}
a person who has a real and effective industrial or commercial establishment in the territory of a Contracting Party.
The Registrar shall not be required to transmit the international application to the International Bureau unless the international application is -
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{a)
made in such form as may be required under the Common
Regulations;
[b} accompanied by payment of such fee as may be required under the
Common Regulations for the filing of the international application; and
{cj accompanied by payment to the Registry of a transmittal fee of
$150.
The payment referred to in subrule (3)(b} must comply with
(aJ such general requirements as may be specified in the practice directions issued by the Registrar; and
such other requirements as the Registrar may, in any particular case, specify in a written notice to the applicant.
[5)
In this rule -
"Contracting Party" means any State or inter-governmental organisation which is a party to the Geneva Act of the Hague Agreement;
"territory of a Contracting Party" means
where the Contracting Party is a State, the territory of that
State; or
where the Contracting Party is an inter-governmental organisation, the territory in which the constituent treaty of that inter-governmental organisation applies.