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