Industrial Designs Act, 2001

Protection requirements.

14.—(1) A design applied to or incorporated in a product which constitutes a component part of a complex product shall only be considered to be new and to have individual character—

(a) if the component part, once it has been incorporated into the complex product, remains visible during normal use of the complex product, and

(b) to the extent that those visible features of the component part fulfil in themselves the requirements as to novelty and individual character under sections 12 and 13.

(2) In this section “normal use” means use by the end user, excluding maintenance, servicing or repair work.