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Layout Design Order, 1999 · s 11

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s 11

(1)

Subject to this section, the person who makes an eligible layout design is the first owner of the layout design rights in that eligible layout design.

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{2)

Where a layout design is made by a person in the course of his employment or apprenticeship, his employer is the nrst owner of the layout design rights in that eligible layout design, subject to any agreement to the contrary.

(31

Where a person commissions the making of a layout design for valuable consideration, and the layout design is made in carrying out that commission, the person who commissioned the work is the first owner of the layout design rights in that eligible layout design, subject to any agreement to the contrary.

(4)

This Order protects all independently made layout designs during the protection period, even if they are identical and regardless of when they were made.

(5)

Where an eligible layout design is owned by more than one person, a reference in this Order to the owner is'to all the owners and a reference in this Order to the eligible owner is to all the eligible owners, so that in particular any requirement of the consent of an eligible owner requires the consent of all the eligible owners.