{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/registered-designs-act-1949/section-25",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/registered-designs-act-1949/section-25.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/25",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "25",
  "heading": "Certificate of contested validity of registration.",
  "text": "(1) If in any proceedings before the court the validity of the registration of a design is contested, and it is found by the court that the design is , to any extent, validly registered, the court may certify that the validity of the registration of the design was contested in those proceedings.\n(2) Where any such certificate has been granted, then if in any subsequent proceedings before the court for infringement of the right in the registered design or for invalidation of the registration of the design, a final order or judgment is made or given in favour of the registered proprietor, he shall, unless the court otherwise directs, be entitled to his costs as between solicitor and client:\nProvided that this subsection shall not apply to the costs of any appeal in any such proceedings as aforesaid.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 25(1) inserted (9.12.2001) by S.I. 2001/3949, reg. 9(1), Sch. 1 para. 8(2) (with transitional provisions in regs. 10-14)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words substituted by Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 (c. 48, SIF 67A), s. 272, Sch. 3 para. 14"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in s. 25(2) substituted (9.12.2001) by S.I. 2001/3949, reg. 9(1), Sch. 1 para. 8(3) (with transitional provisions in regs. 10-14)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Geo6/12-13-14/88/section/25",
    "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."
}