SCHEDULES

C1C2SCHEDULE 3 Registered designs: minor and consequential amendments of 1949 Act

Annotations:
Modifications etc. (not altering text)
C1

Sch. 3 extended (with modifications) (Isle of Man) (9.12.2001) by S.I. 2001/3678, art. 3, Sch. 3

C2

Sch. 3 extended (Isle of Man) (with modifications) (11.11.2013) by The Registered Designs (Isle of Man) Order 2013 (S.I. 2013/2533), arts. 1, 3(2), Sch. 2

Section 30: costs and security for costs

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For section 30 of the Registered Designs Act 1949 (costs and security for costs) substitute—

30 Costs and security for costs.

1

Rules made by the Secretary of State under this Act may make provision empowering the registrar, in any proceedings before him under this Act—

a

to award any party such costs as he may consider reasonable, and

b

to direct how and by what parties they are to be paid.

2

Any such order of the registrar may be enforced—

a

in England and Wales or Northern Ireland, in the same way as an order of the High Court;

b

in Scotland, in the same way as a decree for expenses granted by the Court of Session.

3

Rules made by the Secretary of State under this Act may make provision empowering the registrar to require a person, in such cases as may be prescribed, to give security for the costs of—

a

an application for cancellation of the registration of a design,

b

an application for the grant of a licence in respect of a registered design, or

c

an appeal from any decision of the registrar under this Act,

and enabling the application or appeal to be treated as abandoned in default of such security being given.