Designs Act, 2000
Section - 1 - Short title, extent and commencementSection - 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 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 applicaÂtion 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 the 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 counÂtries or group of countries or inter-governmental organisations
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
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