# Registered Designs Act 1949, Section 3: Applications for registration.

Extent: E+W+S+N.I.

(1) An application for the registration of a designor designs ... shall be filed at the Patent Office in the prescribed manner.
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(3) An application for the registration of a designor designs in which national unregistered design right subsists shall be made by the person claiming to be the design right owner.
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(5) An application for the registration of a design which, owing to any default or neglect on the part of the applicant, has not been completed so as to enable registration to be effected within such time as may be prescribed shall be deemed to be abandoned.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Geo6/12-13-14/88/section/3 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/registered-designs-act-1949/section-3
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