{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/registered-designs-rules-2006/article-7",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/registered-designs-rules-2006/article-7.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2006/1975",
  "legislation_title": "The Registered Designs Rules 2006",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/registered-designs-rules-2006",
  "path": "article/7",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "7",
  "heading": "Convention applications",
  "text": "(1) Where an application for the registration of a design or designs is made by virtue of section 14 the applicant shall comply with the following provisions.\n(2) The application shall contain a declaration specifying—\n(a) the date of making of each convention application; and\n(b) the country it was made in or in respect of.\n(3) The applicant shall, before the end of the period of 3 months beginning immediately after the date on which the application was filed, file at the Patent Office a copy of the representation of the design that was the subject of each convention application.\n(4) A copy of the representation filed under paragraph (3) shall be—\n(a) duly certified by the authority with which it was filed; or\n(b) verified to the satisfaction of the registrar.\n(5) Paragraph (3) shall not apply where a copy of the convention application is kept at the Patent Office.\n(6) Where any document relating to the convention application is in a language other than English or Welsh, the registrar may direct the applicant to provide a translation of the whole or any part of that document.\n(7) The translation shall be filed before the end of the period of 3 months beginning immediately after the date of the direction.\n(8) Where the applicant—\n(a) fails to file a copy of the representation of the design which has been certified or verified in accordance with paragraph (4); or\n(b) fails to comply with a direction given under paragraph (6),\nthe convention application shall be disregarded for the purposes of section 14(2).\n(9) In this rule “convention application” means an application for the protection of a design which has been made in a convention country.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in rule 7(3) 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": "Words in rule 7(7) 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)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2006/1975/article/7",
    "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."
}