Section 12: Restoration of lapsed designs.

The Designs Act, 2000Central Act · Act 16 of 2000

(1) Where a design has ceased to have effect by reason of failure to pay the fee for the extension of copyright under sub-section (2) of section 11, the proprietor of such design or his legal representative and where the design was held by two or more persons jointly, then, with the leave of the Controller one or more of them without joining the others, may, within one year from the date on which the design ceased to have effect, make an application for the restoration of the design in the prescribed manner on payment of such fee as may be prescribed.

(2) An application under this section shall contain a statement, verified in the prescribed manner, fully setting out the circumstances which led to the failure to pay the prescribed fee, and the Controller may require from the applicant such further evidence as he may think necessary.

Where this provision sits

Act	The Designs Act, 2000
Section	12
Marginal note	Restoration of lapsed designs.
Jurisdiction	Central
Status	In force as published by the source

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