Industrial and Commercial Property (Protection) Act, 1927

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Registration of designs registered in Patent Office in London.

66.—(1) The person who is for the time being registered in the Patent Office in London as the proprietor of a design which is registered in that Office at the commencement of this Part of this Act shall, on payment of the prescribed fee and furnishing to the controller for registration certified copies of such design and of the entries in the British register relating thereto, be entitled at any time within six months after the commencement of this Part of this Act to have such design registered under this Act in the register of designs in the Office in the same classes and subject to the same notices and other matters as such design is registered in and subject to in the Patent Office in London at the date of the application for registration under this Act.

(2) For all purposes under this Act a design registered pursuant to this section shall be deemed to have been first registered under this Act on the date on which such design was first registered in the Patent Office in London notwithstanding that such date is prior to the passing of this Act or to the commencement of this Part of this Act and (whenever appropriate) the period of the copyright in such design shall be deemed to have been extended under this Act on the date or respective dates and for the time or respective times on and for which such period was extended in the Patent Office in London before the registration of such design pursuant to this section whether such date or dates was or respectively were prior or subsequent to the passing of this Act or the commencement of this Part of this Act.