{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/design-right-proceedings-before-comptroller-rules-1989/article-23",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/design-right-proceedings-before-comptroller-rules-1989/article-23.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1989/1130",
  "legislation_title": "The Design Right (Proceedings before Comptroller) Rules 1989",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/design-right-proceedings-before-comptroller-rules-1989",
  "path": "article/23",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "23",
  "heading": "General",
  "text": "(1) Service and translation of documentsEvery person concerned in any proceedings to which these Rules relate shall furnish to the Comptroller an address for service ..., and that address may be treated for all purposes connected with such proceedings as the address of the person concerned.\n(1A) The address for service shall be an address in the United Kingdom, Gibraltar or the Channel Islands.\n(2) Where any document or part of a document which is in a language other than English is served on the Comptroller or any party to proceedings or filed with the Comptroller in pursuance of these Rules, it shall be accompanied by a translation into English of the document or part, verified to the satisfaction of the Comptroller as corresponding to the original text.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in rule 23(1) omitted (6.4.2006) by virtue of The Patents, Trade Marks and Designs (Address For Service and Time Limits, etc) Rules 2006 (S.I. 2006/760), rules 1, 3(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Rule 23(1A) substituted (6.4.2009) by The Patents, Trade Marks and Designs (Address for Service) Rules 2009 (S.I. 2009/546), rules 1, 3"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Word in rule 23(1A) substituted (1.1.2021) by The Patents, Trade Marks and Designs (Address for Service) (Amendment) (EU Exit) Rules 2020 (S.I. 2020/1317), rules 1(1), 5(2) (with rules 6-8)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Rule 23 in force at 1.8.1989, see rule 1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1989/1130/article/23",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T15:41:21.905642+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."
}