{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/registered-designs-rules-2006/article-43",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/registered-designs-rules-2006/article-43.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2006/1975",
  "legislation_title": "The Registered Designs Rules 2006",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/registered-designs-rules-2006",
  "path": "article/43",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "43",
  "heading": "Failure to furnish an address for service",
  "text": "(1) Where—\n(a) a person has failed to furnish an address for service under rule 42(1); and\n(b) the registrar has sufficient information enabling him to contact that person,\nthe registrar shall direct that person to furnish an address for service.\n(2) Where a direction has been given under paragraph (1), the person directed shall, before the end of the period of 2 months beginning immediately after the date of the direction, furnish an address for service.\n(3) Paragraph (4) applies where—\n(a) a direction was given under paragraph (1) and the period prescribed by paragraph (2) has expired; or\n(b) the registrar had insufficient information to give a direction under paragraph (1),\nand the person has failed to furnish an address for service.\n(4) Where this paragraph applies—\n(a) in the case of an applicant for the registration of a design, the application shall be treated as withdrawn;\n(b) in the case of a person applying under section 11ZB for a declaration of invalidity, his application shall be treated as withdrawn; and\n(c) in the case of the proprietor who is opposing an application under section 11ZB, he shall be deemed to have withdrawn from the proceedings;\n(d) in the case of a proprietor who sends a derogation notice to the registrar, the registrar must proceed as if the proprietor had not sent a derogation notice.\n(5) In this rule an “address for service” means an address which complies with the requirements of rule 42(4) ....",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in rule 43(2) substituted (31.3.2013) by virtue of The Trade Marks and Registered Designs (Amendment) Rules 2013 (S.I. 2013/444), rules 1, 7, Sch. 2 (with rule 8)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Rule 43(4)(c): semicolon substituted for word by The Designs and International Trade Marks (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/638), reg. 1, Sch. 6 para. 9(2) (as inserted by S.I. 2020/1050, regs. 1(2), 24(e)); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Rule 43(4)(d) inserted by The Designs and International Trade Marks (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/638), reg. 1, Sch. 6 para. 9(3) (as inserted by S.I. 2020/1050, regs. 1(2), 24(e)); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in rule 43(5) omitted (6.4.2009) by virtue of The Patents, Trade Marks and Designs (Address for Service) Rules 2009 (S.I. 2009/546), rules 1, 7"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2006/1975/article/43",
    "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."
}