Registered Designs Act 2000 · 2020 Revised Edition · Part 5A · The Geneva Act of the Hague Agreement, Etc.
64A. Power to make provision giving effect to the Geneva Act of the Hague Agreement, etc.
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The Minister may make rules to give effect in Singapore to the provisions of the Geneva Act of the Hague Agreement or of any other treaty, convention, arrangement or engagement relating to designs to which Singapore is a party.
Without limiting subsection (1), rules may, in particular, be made to provide for —
the procedures to be followed for the filing of applications for international registrations through the Registry;
the procedures to be followed where an application for international registration fails or the international registration ceases to be in force;
the effects of a successful application for international registration designating Singapore as a country in which the design is to be registered;
the communication of information to the International Bureau; and
the payment of fees (including transmittal fees) and amounts prescribed in respect of applications for international registrations, corrections and renewals.
Provision may also be made in the rules to apply, in relation to an international design (Singapore), the provisions of section 44 and Parts 4 and 6.
design
“design” means features of shape, configuration, colours, pattern or ornament applied to any article or non‑physical product that give that article or non‑physical product its appearance, but does not include —(a)a method or principle of construction;(b)features of shape, configuration or colours of an article or a non‑physical product that —(i)are dictated solely by the function that the article or non‑physical product has to perform;(ii)are dependent upon the appearance of another article or non‑physical product of which the article or non‑physical product is intended by the designer to form an integral part; or(iii)enable the article or non‑physical product to be connected to, or placed in, around or against, another article or non‑physical product, so that either article or non‑physical product may perform its function; or(c)features consisting only of one or more colours that —(i)are not used with any feature of shape or configuration; and(ii)do not give rise to any feature of pattern or ornament;
In this section —
“Geneva Act of the Hague Agreement” means the Act, signed at Geneva on 2 July 1999, of the Hague Agreement Concerning the International Registration of Industrial Designs;
“international design (Singapore)” means —
a design which is entitled to protection in Singapore under the Geneva Act of the Hague Agreement; or
a design prescribed by the Minister as an international design (Singapore);
“international registration” means the international registration of an industrial design effected according to the Geneva Act of the Hague Agreement.