The Registered Designs Rules 1995

PRELIMINARY

Citation and commencement

1.  These Rules may be cited as the Registered Designs Rules 1995 and shall come into force on 4th December 1995.

Interpretation

2.  In these Rules, unless the context otherwise requires—

“the Act” means the Registered Designs Act 1949 and “section” means a section of the Act;

“convention application” means an application in the United Kingdom under section 14;

“Journal” means the Official Journal (Patents) published by the Comptroller-General of Patents, Designs and Trade Marks under the Patents Act 1977(1);

“register” means the register of designs kept under section 17;

“specimen” means an article with the design applied to it;

“textile article” means textile and plastics piece goods, handkerchiefs, shawls and such other classes of articles of a similar character as the registrar may from time to time decide, for which the protection required is limited to features of pattern and ornament only;

“United Kingdom” includes the Isle of Man.

Revocation

3.  The Registered Designs Rules 1989(2) and the Registered Designs (Amendment) Rules 1990(3) are hereby revoked.

Forms

4.—(1) The forms mentioned in these Rules are those set out in Schedule 1 to these Rules.

(2) A requirement under these Rules to use a form set out in Schedule 1 to these Rules is satisfied by the use either of a replica of that form or of a form which contains the information required by the form set out in the said Schedule and which is acceptable to the registrar.

(1)

1977 c. 37.

(2)

S.I. 1989/1105.

(3)

S.I. 1990/1456.