proprietor and that other person, shall be treated for the purposes of this
Act as the proprietor of the design or as the proprietor of the design in
relation to that article.
9. (1) An application for the registration of a design shall be made in the Proceedings for
prescribed form and shall be lodged at the Designs Office in the
registration
prescribed manner.
(2) For the purpose of deciding whether a design is new or original, the
Registrar may make such searches, if any, as he thinks fit.
(3) The Registrar may refuse any application for the registration of a
design or may register the design in pursuance of the application subject
to such modifications, if any, as he thinks fit.
(4) An application which, owing to any default or neglect on the part of
the applicant, has not been completed so as to enable registration to be
effected within such time as may be prescribed shall be deemed to be
abandoned.
(5) Except as otherwise expressly provided by this Act, a design when
registered shall be registered as of the date on which the application for
registration was made, or such other date (whether earlier or later than
that date) as the Registrar may in any particular case direct:
Provided that no proceedings shall be taken in respect of any
infringement of copyright in that design committed before the date on
which the certificate of registration thereof under this Act is issued.
(6) An appeal shall lie from any decision of the Registrar under
subsection (3).
10. (1) Where the registered proprietor of a design registered in respect Registration of
same design in
of any article makes an applicationrespect of other
articles, etc.
(a)
for registration in respect of one or more other articles, of the