Article 11 Commencement and term of protection of the supplementary unregistered ... designF5F6

A design which meets the requirements under Section 1 shall be protected by F1a supplementary unregistered F2... design for a period of three years as from the date on which the design was first made available to the public within the F3United Kingdom, a qualifying country or a qualifying territory.

For the purpose of paragraph 1, a design shall be deemed to have been made available to the public within the F4United Kingdom, a qualifying country or a qualifying territory if it has been published, exhibited, used in trade or otherwise disclosed in such a way that, in the normal course of business, these events could reasonably have become known to the circles specialised in the sector concerned, operating within the United Kingdom, a qualifying country or a qualifying territory. The design shall not, however, be deemed to have been made available to the public for the sole reason that it has been disclosed to a third person under explicit or implicit conditions of confidentiality.