Section 18A

An applicant may, when filing the applicant’s application for registration of a design, request that any publication under section 18 of the design be deferred for the prescribed period after the date of filing of that application.

A request under subsection (1) must be made in the prescribed manner and accompanied by the prescribed fee.

Despite section 18, the Registrar must defer the publication under that section of a design which is the subject of a request under subsection (1) for the prescribed period referred to in that subsection.

The Minister may make rules to provide for the deferment of the publication under section 18 of a registered design and for matters relating thereto.