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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/registered-designs-act-1949/section-22",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/registered-designs-act-1949/section-22.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/22",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "22",
  "heading": "Inspection of registered designs.",
  "text": "(1) Where a design has been registered under this Act, there shall be open to inspection at the Patent Office on and after the day on which the certificate of registration is granted—\n(a) the representation or specimen of the design, ...\n(b) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\nThis subsection has effect subject to subsection (4) and to any rules made under section 5(2) of this Act.\n(2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(3) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(4) Where registration of a design has been refused pursuant to an application under this Act, or an application under this Act has been abandoned in relation to any design—\n(a) the application, so far as relating to that design, and\n(b) any representation, specimen or other document which has been filed and relates to that design,\nshall not at any time be open to inspection at the Patent Office or be published by the registrar.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "S. 22(1) substituted by Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 (c. 48, SIF 67A), s. 272, Sch. 3 para. 12(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Word in s. 22(1) substituted (1.10.2006) by Regulatory Reform (Registered Designs) Order 2006 (S.I. 2006/1974), arts. 1(1), 16(2)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "S. 22(1)(b) and preceding “and” repealed (9.12.2001) by S.I. 2001/3949, reg. 9(2), Sch. 2 (with transitional provisions in regs. 10-14)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in s. 22(1) substituted (1.10.2006) by Regulatory Reform (Registered Designs) Order 2006 (S.I. 2006/1974), arts. 1(1), 16(2)(b) (with art. 19)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "S. 22(2)(3) omitted (1.10.2006) by virtue of Regulatory Reform (Registered Designs) Order 2006 (S.I. 2006/1974), arts. 1(1), 16(3) (with art. 19)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "S. 22(4) substituted (1.10.2006) by Regulatory Reform (Registered Designs) Order 2006 (S.I. 2006/1974), arts. 1(1), 15"
    }
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    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T11:19:58.992093+00:00"
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  "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."
}