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The Designs Act, 2000

Provision-wise Act, subordinate instruments, Finin2min interpretation, examples, evidence controls and practical Q&A.

Finin2min Act Summary

This repository converts The Designs Act, 2000 into a working legal-control system: classify the issue, identify the exact provision and instrument, fix the event date, compute the amount/deadline, obtain authority, preserve evidence and select the correct remedy.

Act structure and section map

Section rangeEditorial topic mapStart
1-7Preliminary And RegistrabilityOpen
8-16Registration, Publication And CertificateOpen
17-24Copyright In Registered Designs And RestorationOpen
25-32Inspection, Cancellation And PiracyOpen
33-40Evidence, Agency And International ArrangementsOpen
41-48Fees, Rules And RepealOpen

Full section index (48)

Sec 1Sec 2Sec 3Sec 4Sec 5Sec 6Sec 7Sec 8Sec 9Sec 10Sec 11Sec 12Sec 13Sec 14Sec 15Sec 16Sec 17Sec 18Sec 19Sec 20Sec 21Sec 22Sec 23Sec 24Sec 25Sec 26Sec 27Sec 28Sec 29Sec 30Sec 31Sec 32Sec 33Sec 34Sec 35Sec 36Sec 37Sec 38Sec 39Sec 40Sec 41Sec 42Sec 43Sec 44Sec 45Sec 46Sec 47Sec 48

Rules, Regulations, notifications and directions

  1. Designs Rules, 2001
  2. Designs (Amendment) Rules and classification updates
  3. Design Office Manual and practice directions
  4. Locarno classification updates
  5. High Court IP Division rules

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Source boundary

Section identifiers and professional interpretation pages are provided for implementation and navigation. Exact current words, inserted/omitted provisions, headings, provisos, explanations, commencement and State variations must be certified against the official source before the corpus is labelled full source-controlled.