The scope of the protection conferred by a F1supplementary unregistered design shall include any design which does not produce on the informed user a different overall impression.

In assessing the scope of protection, the degree of freedom of the designer in developing his design shall be taken into consideration.

A design which meets the requirements under Section 1 shall be protected by F4a supplementary unregistered F5... design for a period of three years as from the date on which the design was first made available to the public within the F6United Kingdom, a qualifying country or a qualifying territory.

For the purpose of paragraph 1, a design shall be deemed to have been made available to the public within the F7United Kingdom, a qualifying country or a qualifying territory if it has been published, exhibited, used in trade or otherwise disclosed in such a way that, in the normal course of business, these events could reasonably have become known to the circles specialised in the sector concerned, operating within the F7United Kingdom, a qualifying country or a qualifying territory. The design shall not, however, be deemed to have been made available to the public for the sole reason that it has been disclosed to a third person under explicit or implicit conditions of confidentiality.