Registered Designs Act 2000 · 2020 Revised Edition · Part 5 · Administrative and Other Supplementary Provisions
53. Register of Designs
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The Registrar must maintain a register to be known as the Register of Designs.
Registrar
“Registrar” means the Registrar of Designs referred to in section 49 and includes any Deputy Registrar of Designs referred to in that section;
There must be entered in the Register in accordance with this Act —
particulars of registered designs, including the dates of registration;
the names of registered owners;
particulars of transactions affecting rights in registered designs and applications for registration of designs; and
such other matters as the Registrar may think fit.
No notice of any implied or constructive trust may be entered in the Register, and the Registrar is not affected by any such notice.
A notice of an express trust or of the beneficiary of an express trust, or both, may be entered in the Register; but —
the Registrar is not affected by any such notice in the Register; and
to avoid doubt, a failure to enter such notice in the Register does not affect any rights or duties under the trust.
The Register may be kept in whole or in part using a computer.
Any record of a particular or other matter made by using a computer for the purpose of keeping the Register is taken to be an entry in the Register.