LAWS OF MALAWI
Registered Designs
Registered Designs Regulations
31.
32.
Registered Designs
Cap. 49:05
[Subsidiary]
An application under section 30 for a copy of a certificate of registration shall be made in form
No. 28 and shall be accompanied by evidence setting out fully and verifying the circumstances in
which the original certificate of registration was lost or destroyed or cannot be produced.
Copy of certificate
of registration
(1) Where the Registrar has given a direction under section 11(2) prohibiting or restricting the
publication of a design, the representation or specimen of the design shall not be open to public
Designs not open to
inspection while such direction remains in force.
public inspection
(2) The period under section 27(2) during which a design shall not be open to inspection, except
as provided in that section, shall be, as regards designs to be applied to textile articles, three
years and as regards to be applied to wallpaper and lace, two years from the date of
registration thereof.
PART V
MISCELLANEOUS
33.
34.
The fees to be paid in respect of the registration of designs and applications therefore, and in
respect of other matters relating to designs arising under the Act, shall be those prescribed in the
First Schedule.
Fees
The forms referred to in these Regulations are those set out in the Second Schedule and such
forms shall be used in all cases to which they are applicable and may be modified as directed by
the Registrar.
Forms
35.
Subject to any directions that may be given by the Registrar, all applications, notices, statements,
papers having representations affixed, or other documents authorized or required by the Act to be
made, left or sent at or to the Office, shall be written, typewritten, lithographed or printed in the
English language upon strong paper, in dark, indelible ink and, except where otherwise required,
on one side only, or a size approximately 13 inches by 8 inches, and shall have on the left hand
Size, etc., of documents
part thereof a margin of not less than 1½ inches.
36.
Every person concerned in any proceedings to which these regulations relate, and every
registered proprietor, shall furnish to the Registrar an address for service in Malawi and that
address may be treated for all purposes connected with such proceedings or design as the address
of the person concerned in the proceedings or the registered proprietor.
37.
(1) Where any notice, application or other document is required to be served on any person under
the Act, such service may be effected by the delivery of a copy thereof-
a. At the address for service furnished to the Registrar in terms of these Regulations;
or
b. To such person personally, or to his duly authorized agent; or
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Address for service
Method and proof
of service