{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/registered-designs-act-1949/section-37",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/registered-designs-act-1949/section-37.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/37",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "37",
  "heading": "Provisions as to rules and Orders.",
  "text": "(1) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(2) Any rules made by the Secretary of State in pursuance of section 15 of this Act, and any order made, direction given, or other action taken under the rules by the registrar, may be made, given or taken so as to have effect as respects things done or omitted to be done on or after such date, whether before or after the coming into operation of the rules or of this Act, as may be specified in the rules.\n(3) Any power to make rules conferred by this Act on the Secretary of State ... and the power to make an order under section 15ZA and the power to make regulations under section 28A shall be exercisable by statutory instrument ....\n(4) Any statutory instrument containing rules made by the Secretary of State under this Act or regulations under section 28A shall be subject to annulment in pursuance of a resolution of either House of Parliament.\n(4A) Subsection (4) does not apply to the first regulations to be made under section 28A, but the Secretary of State may not make those regulations unless a draft of the statutory instrument containing them has been laid before, and approved by a resolution of, each House of Parliament.\n(4B) The Secretary of State may not make an order under section 15ZA unless a draft of the statutory instrument containing the order has been laid before, and approved by a resolution of, each House of Parliament.\n(5) Any Order in Council made under this Act may be revoked or varied by a subsequent Order in Council.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "S. 37(1) repealed by Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 (c. 48, SIF 67A), ss. 272, 303(2), Sch. 3 para. 27(2), Sch. 8"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words substituted by Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 (c. 48, SIF 67A), s. 272, Sch. 3 para. 27(3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in s. 37(2) substituted (9.12.2001) by S.I. 2001/3949, reg. 9(1), Sch. 1 para. 12 (with transitional provisions in regs. 10-14)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in s. 37(3) omitted (6.4.2015) by virtue of Intellectual Property Act 2014 (c. 18), ss. 10(5)(a), 24(1); S.I. 2015/165, art. 3"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Words in s. 37(3) inserted (1.10.2014) by Intellectual Property Act 2014 (c. 18), ss. 8(2)(a), 24(1); S.I. 2014/2330, art. 3, Sch."
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "Words in s. 37(3) inserted (1.10.2014) by Intellectual Property Act 2014 (c. 18), ss. 11(3)(a), 24(1); S.I. 2014/2330, art. 3, Sch."
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F7",
      "text": "Words in s. 37(3) omitted (6.4.2015) by virtue of Intellectual Property Act 2014 (c. 18), ss. 10(5)(b), 24(1); S.I. 2015/165, art. 3"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F8",
      "text": "Words in s. 37(4) inserted (1.10.2014) by Intellectual Property Act 2014 (c. 18), ss. 11(3)(b), 24(1); S.I. 2014/2330, art. 3, Sch."
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F9",
      "text": "S. 37(4A) inserted (1.10.2014) by Intellectual Property Act 2014 (c. 18), ss. 11(3)(c), 24(1); S.I. 2014/2330, art. 3, Sch."
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F10",
      "text": "S. 37(4B) inserted (1.10.2014) by Intellectual Property Act 2014 (c. 18), ss. 8(2)(b), 24(1); S.I. 2014/2330, art. 3, Sch."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "words inserted",
      "affecting": "ukpga/2014/18",
      "affecting_title": "Intellectual Property Act 2014"
    }
  ],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Geo6/12-13-14/88/section/37",
    "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."
}