{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/copyright-designs-and-patents-act-1988/schedule-3/paragraph-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/copyright-designs-and-patents-act-1988/schedule-3/paragraph-3.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/3",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) Section 5 of the Registered Designs Act 1949 is amended as follows.\n(2) For “a competent authority” or “the competent authority”, wherever occurring, substitute “ the Secretary of State ”; and in subsection (3)(c) for “that authority” substitute “ he ”.\n(3) For subsection (2) substitute—\n“(2) The Secretary of State shall by rules make provision for securing that where such directions are given—\n(a) the representation or specimen of the design, and\n(b) any evidence filed in support of the applicant’s contention that the appearance of an article is material (for the purposes of section 1(3) of this Act),\nshall not be open to public inspection at the Patent Office during the continuance in force of the directions.”\n(4) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(5) Omit subsection (5).",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Sch. 3 para. 3(4) repealed (9.12.2001) by S.I. 2001/3949, reg. 9(2), Sch. 2 (with transitional provisions in regs. 10-14)"
    }
  ],
  "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      "type": "repealed",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/3",
    "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."
}