{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/regulatory-reform-registered-designs-order-2006/article-5",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/regulatory-reform-registered-designs-order-2006/article-5.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2006/1974",
  "legislation_title": "The Regulatory Reform (Registered Designs) Order 2006",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/regulatory-reform-registered-designs-order-2006",
  "path": "article/5",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Substantive examination for novelty",
  "text": "In section 3A (determination of applications for registration), for subsection (4) there shall be substituted—\n“(4) If it appears to the registrar that the application for registration includes—\n(a) something which does not fulfil the requirements of section 1(2) of this Act;\n(b) a design that does not fulfil the requirements of section 1C or 1D of this Act; or\n(c) a design to which a ground of refusal mentioned in Schedule A1 to this Act applies,\nhe shall refuse to register that thing or that design.”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2006/1974/article/5",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T04:24:55.895811+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."
}