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TypeBare Act JurisdictionCentral Government

Designs Act, 2000

Complete Act - all sections

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https://sooperkanoon.com/act/50996

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About this act

Designs Act, 2000 (2000) is Central state legislation published on SooperKanoon in full. Use this page to read the bare act and jump to judgments that cite it.

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Act Text

Preamble1 - The Designs Act, 2000
Chapter1 - Preliminary
Section1 - Short Title, Extent and Commencement
Section2 - Definitions
Chapter2 - Registration of Designs
Section3 - Controller and Other Officers
Section4 - Prohibition of Registration of Certain Designs
Section5 - Application for Registration of Designs
Section6 - Registration to Be in Respect of Particular Article
Section7 - Publication of Particulars of Registered Designs
Section8 - Power of Controller to Make Orders Regarding Substitution of Application, Etc.
Section9 - Certificate of Registration
Section10 - Register of Designs
Chapter3 - Copyright in Registered Designs
Section11 - Copyright on Registration
Section12 - Restoration of Lapsed Designs
Section13 - Procedure for Disposal of Applications for Restoration of Lapsed Designs
Section14 - Rights of Proprietor of Lapsed Design Which Have Been Restored
Section15 - Requirements Before Delivery on Sales
Section16 - Effect of Disclosure on Copyright
Section17 - Inspection of Registered Designs
Section18 - Information as to Existence of Copyright
Section19 - Cancellation of Registration
Section20 - Designs to Bind Government
Chapter4 - Industrial and International Exhibitions
Section21 - Provisions as to Exhibitions
Chapter5 - Legal Proceedings
Section22 - Piracy of Registered Design
Section23 - Application of Certain Provisions of the Act as to Patents to Designs
Chapter6 - General
Section24 - Fees : Fees
Section25 - Provisions as to Registers and Other Documents in the Patent Office : Notice of Trust Not to Be Entered in Registers
Section26 - Inspection of and Extracts from Registers
Section27 - Privilege of Reports of Controller
Section28 - Prohibition and Publication of Specification, Drawings, Etc., Where Application Abandoned, Etc.
Section29 - Power of Controller to Correct Clerical Errors
Section30 - Entry of Assignment and Transmissions in Registers
Section31 - Rectification of Register
Chapter7 - Powers and Duties of Controller
Section32 - Powers of Controller in Proceedings Under Act
Section33 - Exercise of Discretionary Power by Controller
Section34 - Power of Controller to Take Directions of the Central Government
Section35 - Refusal to Register a Design in Certain Cases
Section36 - Appeals to the High Court
Chapter8 - Evidence, Etc.
Section37 - Evidence Before the Controller
Section38 - Certificate of Controller to Be Evidence
Section39 - Evidence of Documents in Patent Office
Section40 - Applications and Notices by Post
Section41 - Declaration by Infant, Lunatic Etc.
Section42 - Avoidance of Certain Restrictive Conditions
Chapter9 - Agency
Section43 - Agency
Chapter10 - Powers, Etc., of Central Government
Section44 - Reciprocal Arrangement with the United Kingdom and Other Convention Countries or Group of Countries or Inter-governmental Organisations
Section45 - Report of the Controller to Be Placed Before Parliament
Section46 - Protection of Security of India
Section47 - Power of Central Government to Make Rules
Chapter11 - Repeal and Savings
Section48 - Repeal and Savings

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What is the Designs Act, 2000?

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