On 19/05/2013,
you requested for the version in force on 19/05/2013
incorporating all amendments published on or before 19/05/2013.
The closest version currently available is that of 31/07/2005.
32.
—(1) A registered design or any right in it is personal property and may be assigned or transmitted in the same way as other personal property.
(2) A registered design or any right in it may be vested by an assent of personal representatives.
(3) A licence may be granted for the use of a registered design and, to the extent that the licence so provides, a sub-licence may be granted under any such licence.
(4) Any such licence or sub-licence —
(a)
may be assigned or transmitted in the same way as personal property; and
(b)
may be vested by an assent of personal representatives.
(5) Subsections (1) to (4) shall have effect subject to this Act.
(6) An assignment of a design or a right therein, or an assent relating to a registered design or a right therein, is not effective unless it is in writing and signed by or on behalf of the assignor or, as the case may be, a personal representative.
(7) Subsection (6) may be satisfied in a case where the assignor or personal representative is a body corporate by the affixing of its seal.
(8) Subsections (6) and (7) shall apply to an assignment by way of security as they apply to any other assignment.
(9) An assignment of a registered design or any right in it, or an exclusive licence in relation to a registered design, may confer on the assignee or licensee the right of the assignor or licensor to bring proceedings under section 23 or 36.
[HK Designs, s. 32]