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(1)For section 7 of the Registered Designs Act 1949 (right given by registration) substitute—
(1)The registration of a design under this Act gives the registered proprietor the exclusive right—
(a)to make or import—
(i)for sale or hire, or
(ii)for use for the purposes of a trade or business, or
(b)to sell, hire or offer or expose for sale or hire,
an article in respect of which the design is registered and to which that design or a design not substantially different from it has been applied.
(2)The right in the registered design is infringed by a person who without the licence of the registered proprietor does anything which by virtue of subsection (1) is the exclusive right of the proprietor.
(3)The right in the registered design is also infringed by a person who without the licence of the registered proprietor makes anything for enabling any such article to be made, in the United Kingdom or elsewhere, as mentioned in subsection (1).
(4)The right in the registered design is also infringed by a person who without the licence of the registered proprietor—
(a)does anything in relation to a kit that would be an infringement if done in relation to the assembled article (see subsection (1)), or
(b)makes anything for enabling a kit to be made or assembled, in the United Kingdom or elsewhere, if the assembled article would be such an article as is mentioned in subsection (1);
and for this purpose a “kit” means a complete or substantially complete set of components intended to be assembled into an article.
(5)No proceedings shall be taken in respect of an infringement committed before the date on which the certificate of registration of the design under this Act is granted.
(6)The right in a registered design is not infringed by the reproduction of a feature of the design which, by virtue of section 1(1)(b), is left out of account in determining whether the design is registrable.”.
(2)The above amendment does not apply in relation to a design registered in pursuance of an application made before the commencement of this Part.
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