Registered Designs Act 2000 · 2020 Revised Edition · Part 2 · Registration of Designs
16. Examination of application
Feedback & supportThe Registrar must examine an application for registration of a design, being an application which has not been withdrawn, to determine whether it satisfies the formal requirements.
Registrar
“Registrar” means the Registrar of Designs referred to in section 49 and includes any Deputy Registrar of Designs referred to in that section;
If the Registrar determines that an application fails to comply with the formal requirements, the Registrar must notify the applicant and give the applicant an opportunity to correct the non-compliance within such period as the Registrar determines.
formal requirements
“formal requirements” means —(a)the requirements of section 11(2)(c) and (4)(a); and(b)any other requirements of section 11, or of rules made for the purposes of that section, that are prescribed as formal requirements;
If the non-compliance is not corrected within the period referred to in subsection (2), the application is to be treated as withdrawn, but the Registrar may, upon —
the filing by the applicant of a notice in the prescribed form requesting reinstatement of the application;
the payment of the prescribed fee; and
the compliance by the applicant with such conditions as the Registrar may impose,reinstate the application.
Upon reinstatement of an application, any right or means of redress lost by the applicant as a result of the withdrawal must be restored to the applicant.