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(1) The Controller may, on the application of any person claiming to be the proprietor of any new or original design not previously published in1[India], register the design under this Part.
(2) The application must he made in the prescribed form and must he left at the Patent Office in the prescribed manner and must be accompanied by the prescribed fee.
(3) The same design may be registered in more than one class, and, in case of douht as to the class in which a design ought to be registered, the Controller may decide the question.
(4) The Controller may, if he thinks fit, refuse to register any design presented to him for registration, hut any person aggrieved by any such refusal may appeal to the2[Central Government].
(5) 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 he effected within the prescribed time shall be deemed to be abandoned.
(6) A design when registered shall be registered as on the date of the application for registration.
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1. Substituted by Act 32 of 1950, section 2.
2. Substituted by The A.O. 1937.