{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/copyright-designs-and-patents-act-1988/schedule-3/paragraph-19",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/copyright-designs-and-patents-act-1988/schedule-3/paragraph-19.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1988/48",
  "legislation_title": "Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/copyright-designs-and-patents-act-1988",
  "path": "schedule/3/paragraph/19",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "19",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "For section 30 of the Registered Designs Act 1949 (costs and security for costs) substitute—\n“ Costs and security for costs.\n30 (1) Rules made by the Secretary of State under this Act may make provision empowering the registrar, in any proceedings before him under this Act—\n(a) to award any party such costs as he may consider reasonable, and\n(b) to direct how and by what parties they are to be paid.\n(2) Any such order of the registrar may be enforced—\n(a) in England and Wales or Northern Ireland, in the same way as an order of the High Court;\n(b) in Scotland, in the same way as a decree for expenses granted by the Court of Session.\n(3) Rules made by the Secretary of State under this Act may make provision empowering the registrar to require a person, in such cases as may be prescribed, to give security for the costs of—\n(a) an application for cancellation of the registration of a design,\n(b) an application for the grant of a licence in respect of a registered design, or\n(c) an appeal from any decision of the registrar under this Act,\nand enabling the application or appeal to be treated as abandoned in default of such security being given.”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "repealed",
      "affecting": "ukpga/2007/15",
      "affecting_title": "Tribunals, Courts and Enforcement Act 2007"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1988/48/schedule/3/paragraph/19",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:47:40.311838+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}