Industrial Designs Order, 1999 · As enacted · Part VI · Administrative and Miscellaneous Provisions
69. (1)
Official textFrom Attorney General's Chambers, unchanged
After the registration of an industrial design and upon the filing of a written request by any person in the prescribed manner, the Registrar shall give the person making the request such information, and permit him to inspect such documents, relating to the application for registration or to the industrial design, including 97
industrial design
"industrial design" means features of shape, configuration, pattern or ornament applied to an article by any industrial process, being features which in the finished article appeal to and are judged by the eye, but does not include - fa} a method or principle of construction; or [i) are dictated solely by the function which the article has to perform; or
Right to inspect
Register.
Right to copies of entries.
Right to information.
Hours of business of
business
"business" includes any trade or profession; 11Commencement 11 means the day appointed for the commencement of the main substantive.provisions of this Order;
Registry and excluded days.
Exercise of
Registrar's discretionary powers.
Immunity of
Registrar as regards official acts.
any representation, sample or specimen of the industrial design, as may be specified in the request, subject to any prescribed conditions.
Subject to this section, until notice of registration of an industrial design has been published under section 26, information or documents constituting or relating to the application shall not, without the consent of the owner or the applicant, as the case may be, be published or communicated to any person by the Registrar.
Subsection (2) shall not prevent the Registrar from publishing or communicating to other persons any prescribed information relating to an application for registration of an industrial design.
application for registration
"application for registration" means an application for registration of an industrial design made under section 15; 61 29th. JANUARY, 2000 11article 11 means any article of manufacture and includes any part of an article if that part is made and sold separately;
14)
Where a person is notified that an application for registration of an industrial design has been made and that the applicant will, if the industrial design is registered, bring proceedings against that person in the event of his doing any act specified in the notification, that person may make a request under subsection (1)
and that subsection shall apply accordingly.
Terms defined in s 2
application for registration
Defined · s 2"application for registration" means an application for registration of an industrial design made under section 15; 61 29th. JANUARY, 2000 11article 11 means any article of manufacture and includes any part of an article if that part is made and sold separately;
business
Defined · s 2"business" includes any trade or profession; 11Commencement 11 means the day appointed for the commencement of the main substantive.provisions of this Order;
industrial design
Defined · s 2"industrial design" means features of shape, configuration, pattern or ornament applied to an article by any industrial process, being features which in the finished article appeal to and are judged by the eye, but does not include - fa} a method or principle of construction; or [i) are dictated solely by the function which the article has to perform; or