Registered Designs Act 2000 · 2020 Revised Edition · Part 2 · Registration of Designs
18A. Deferment of publication
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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.
application for registration
“application for registration”, in relation to a design, means an application under section 11 for the registration of the design;
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.
Registrar
“Registrar” means the Registrar of Designs referred to in section 49 and includes any Deputy Registrar of Designs referred to in that section;
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.