Section 16
Filing date
of Industrial Designs Act 1996
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Section 16
The filing date of an application for the registration of an industrial design shall be the earliest date on which all of the following conditions are satisfied in relation to the application:
(a)
the documents mentioned in section 14 identify the applicant or applicants;
(b)
the prescribed number of representations of the article to which the industrial design is applied is filed at the
Industrial Designs Registration Office; and
(c)
the prescribed filing fee is paid.