{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/registered-designs-rules-2006/article-19",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/registered-designs-rules-2006/article-19.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2006/1975",
  "legislation_title": "The Registered Designs Rules 2006",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/registered-designs-rules-2006",
  "path": "article/19",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "19",
  "heading": "General powers of registrar in relation to proceedings before him",
  "text": "(1) The registrar may extend or shorten (or further extend or shorten) any period which has been specified under any provision of this Part.\n(2) At any stage of proceedings before him, the registrar may direct that the parties to the proceedings attend a case management conference or pre-hearing review.\n(3) Except where the Act or these Rules otherwise provide, the registrar may give such directions as to the management of the proceedings as he thinks fit, and in particular he may—\n(a) require a document, information or evidence to be filed;\n(b) require a translation of any document;\n(c) require a party or a party's legal representative to attend a hearing;\n(d) hold a hearing and receive evidence by telephone or by using any other method of direct oral communication;\n(e) allow a statement of case to be amended;\n(f) stay the whole, or any part, of the proceedings either generally or until a specified date or event;\n(g) consolidate proceedings;\n(h) direct that part of any proceedings be dealt with as separate proceedings.\n(4) The registrar may control the evidence by giving directions as to—\n(a) the issues on which he requires evidence;\n(b) the nature of the evidence which he requires to decide those issues; and\n(c) the way in which the evidence is to be placed before him,\nand the registrar may use his power under this paragraph to exclude evidence which would otherwise be admissible.\n(5) When the registrar gives directions under any provision of this Part, he may—\n(a) make them subject to conditions; and\n(b) specify the consequences of failure to comply with the directions or a condition.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Rule 19 applied (6.4.2015) by The Appointed Person (Designs) Rules 2015 (S.I. 2015/169), rules 1, 7(4)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2006/1975/article/19",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T04:24:55.526032+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."
}