{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/registered-designs-act-1949/section-11ZB",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/registered-designs-act-1949/section-11ZB.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/Geo6/12-13-14/88",
  "legislation_title": "Registered Designs Act 1949",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/registered-designs-act-1949",
  "path": "section/11ZB",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "11ZB",
  "heading": "Applications for declaration of invalidity.",
  "text": "(1) Any person interested may make an application to the registrar for a declaration of invalidity under section 11ZA(1)(a) or (b) of this Act.\n(2) Any person concerned by the use in question may make an application to the registrar for a declaration of invalidity under section 11ZA(1)(c) of this Act.\n(3) The relevant person may make an application to the registrar for a declaration of invalidity under section 11ZA(1A) of this Act.\n(4) In subsection (3) above “the relevant person” means, in relation to an earlier design protected by virtue of registration under this Actor ... or an application for such registration, the registered proprietor of the design ... or (as the case may be) the applicant.\n(5) The person able to make an objection under subsection (2), (3) or (4) of section 11ZA of this Act may make an application to the registrar for a declaration of invalidity under that subsection.\n(6) An application may be made under this section in relation to a design at any time after the design has been registered.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Ss. 11-11ZF substituted (9.12.2001) for s. 11 by S.I. 2001/3949, reg. 7 (with transitional provisions in regs. 10-14)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in s. 11ZB(1) substituted (1.10.2006) by The Regulatory Reform (Registered Designs) Order 2006 (S.I. 2006/1974), arts. 1(1), 8(2) (with art. 18)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in s. 11ZB(2) substituted (1.10.2006) by The Regulatory Reform (Registered Designs) Order 2006 (S.I. 2006/1974), arts. 1(1), 8(3) (with art. 18)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in s. 11ZB(3) substituted (1.10.2006) by The Regulatory Reform (Registered Designs) Order 2006 (S.I. 2006/1974), arts. 1(1), 8(4) (with art. 18)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Words in s. 11ZB(4) omitted (31.12.2020) by virtue of The Designs and International Trade Marks (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/638), reg. 1, Sch. 8 para. 4(a); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "Words in s. 11ZB(4) omitted (31.12.2020) by virtue of The Designs and International Trade Marks (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/638), reg. 1, Sch. 8 para. 4(b); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F7",
      "text": "Word in s. 11ZB(5) substituted (1.10.2006) by The Regulatory Reform (Registered Designs) Order 2006 (S.I. 2006/1974), arts. 1(1), 8(5) (with art. 18)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Geo6/12-13-14/88/section/11ZB",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T11:19:58.992093+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."
}