The Designs Act 2000
THE DESIGNS ACT, 2000 No. 16 of 2000
SECTION 1: Short title, extent and commencement
SECTION 2: Definitions
SECTION 3: Controller and other officers
SECTION 4: Prohibition of registration of certain designs
SECTION 5: Application for registration of designs
SECTION 6: Registration to be in respect of particular article
SECTION 7: Publication of particulars of registered designs
SECTION 8: Power of Controller to make orders regarding substitution of application, etc.
SECTION 9: Certificate of registration
SECTION 10: Register of designs
SECTION 11: Copyright on registration
SECTION 12: Restoration of lapsed designs
SECTION 13: Procedure for disposal of applications for restoration of lapsed designs
SECTION 14: Rights of proprietor of lapsed design which have been restored
SECTION 15: Requirements before delivery on sales
SECTION 16: Effect of disclosure on copyright
SECTION 17: Inspection of registered designs
SECTION 18: Information as to the existence of copyright
SECTION 19: Cancellation of registration
SECTION 20: Designs to bind Government
SECTION 21: Provisions as to exhibitions
SECTION 22: Piracy of registered design
SECTION 23: Application of certain provisions of the Act as to patents to designs
SECTION 24: Fees
SECTION 25: Notice of trust not to be entered in registers
SECTION 26: Inspection of and extracts from registers
SECTION 27: Privilege of reports of Controller
SECTION 28: Prohibition and publication of specification, drawings, etc. where application abandoned, etc.
SECTION 29: Power of Controller to correct clerical errors
SECTION 30: Entry of assignment and transmissions in registers
SECTION 31: Rectification of register
SECTION 32: Powers of Controller in proceedings under Act
SECTION 33: Exercise of discretionary power by Controller
SECTION 34: Power of Controller to take directions of the Central Government
SECTION 35: Refusal to register a design in certain cases
SECTION 36: Appeals to High Court
SECTION 37: Evidence before the Controller
SECTION 38: Certificate of Controller to be evidence
SECTION 39: Evidence of documents in patent office
SECTION 40: Applications and notices by post
SECTION 41: Declaration by infant, lunatic, etc.
SECTION 42: Avoidance of certain restrictive conditions
SECTION 43: Agency
SECTION 44: Reciprocal arrangement with the United Kingdom and other convention countries or group of countries or inter-governmental organizations
SECTION 45: Report of the Controller to be placed before Parliament
SECTION 46: Protection of security of India
SECTION 47: Power of Central Government to make rules
SECTION 48: Repeal and savings