Long Title

Part I PRELIMINARY

Part II REGISTRATION OF DESIGNS

Division 1 — Ownership of Designs

Division 2 — Registrable Designs

Division 3 — Proceedings for Registration

Division 4 — Duration of Registration

Division 5 — Proceedings for Determination of Rights in Registered Designs

Division 6 — Surrender and Revocation of Registration

Division 7 — Miscellaneous

Part III RIGHTS IN REGISTERED DESIGNS

Division 1 — Rights of Registered Owner of Registered Design

Division 2 — Registered Design as OBJECT OF PROPERTY

Division 3 — Infringement Proceedings

Part IV GOVERNMENT USE OF REGISTERED DESIGNS

Part V ADMINISTRATIVE AND OTHER SUPPLEMENTARY PROVISIONS

Division 1 — Registrar

Division 2 — Register

Division 3 — Powers of Registrar

Division 4 — Hours of Business of Registry

Part VA THE GENEVA ACT OF THE HAGUE AGREEMENT, ETC

Part VI OFFENCES

Part VII MISCELLANEOUS AND GENERAL PROVISIONS

THE SCHEDULE Transitional Provisions

Legislative Source Key

Legislative History

Comparative Table

Division 1 — Ownership of Designs
Owner of design
4.
—(1)  Subject to this section, the designer of a design shall be treated for the purposes of this Act as the owner of the design.
(2)  Where a design is created in pursuance of a commission for money or money’s worth, the person commissioning the design shall be treated as the owner of the design.
(3)  Where, in a case not falling within subsection (2), a design is created by an employee in the course of his employment, his employer shall be treated as the owner of the design.
(4)  Subsections (2) and (3) are subject to any agreement to the contrary between the parties concerned.
(5)  Where a design, or the right to apply a design to any article, becomes vested, whether by assignment, transmission or operation of law, in any person other than the owner, either alone or jointly with the owner, that other person or, as the case may be, the owner and that other person, shall be treated for the purposes of this Act as the owner of the design or as the owner of the design in relation to that article.
(6)  In the case of a design generated by computer in circumstances such that there is no human designer, the person by whom the arrangements necessary for the creation of the design are made shall be deemed to be the designer.
[UK Designs 1949, s. 2; HK Designs, s. 3]