Industrial Design Regulations (SOR/2018-120)

Extension of Time

Marginal note:Non-application of section 21 of Act

52 Rule 4(4) of the Common Regulations applies, and section 21 of the Act does not apply, to the time periods referred to in sections 43, 44 and 51 of these Regulations.

Transitional Provisions

Marginal note:Definition of former Regulations

• 53 (1) In this section, former Regulations means the Industrial Design Regulations as they read immediately before the day on which these Regulations come into force.

• Marginal note:Filing date

  (2) In respect of an application whose filing date, determined under the Act as it read immediately before the day on which these Regulations come into force, is before the day on which these Regulations come into force, or in respect of a design registered on the basis of such an application,

  • (a) the requirements of subsections 8(2) and 9(1), paragraphs 9(2)(a) to (d) and sections 9.1 to 13, 16 and 20 of the former Regulations are substituted for the requirements of sections 10, 11, 14 to 21 and 24 to 32 of these Regulations;

  • (b) for the purpose of subsection 10(2) of the Act as it read immediately before the day on which these Regulations come into force‎, the prescribed period begins five years after the date of registration of the design and ends 10 years after the date of registration of the design; and

  • (c) subsection 22(1) of these Regulations does not apply to that application, and the Minister must examine it to determine if the design meets the requirements for registration under the Act as it read immediately before the day on which these Regulations come into force.

Repeal

54 The Industrial Design RegulationsFootnote ¹ are repealed.

• Return to footnote ¹SOR/99-460

Coming into Force

Marginal note:S.C. 2014, c. 39

Footnote ^*55 These Regulations come into force on the day on which section 102 of the Economic Action Plan 2014 Act, No. 2, comes into force.

• Return to footnote ^*[Note: Regulations in force November 5, 2018, see SI/2018-45.]