Registered Designs Act 1949

44Interpretation.

(1)In this Act, except where the context otherwise requires, the following expressions have the meanings hereby respectively assigned by them, that is to say—

• " Appeal Tribunal " means the judge nominated under section twenty-eight of this Act.

• " article " means any article of manufacture and includes any part of an article if that part is made and sold separately; '

• " assignee " includes the personal representative of a deceased assignee, and references to the assignee of any person include references to the assignee of the personal representative or assignee of that .person ;

• " copyright " has the meaning assigned to it by subsection (1) of section seven of this Act;

• " court " means the High Court;

• " design " has the meaning assigned to it by subsection (3) of section one of this Act;

• " Journal " means the journal published by the comptroller under the Patents Act, 1949 ;

• " prescribed " means prescribed by rules made by the Board of Trade under this Act;

• " proprietor " has the meaning assigned to it by section two of this Act;

• " registered proprietor " means the person or persons for the time being entered in the register of designs as proprietor of the design ;

• " registrar " means the Comptroller-General of Patents Designs and Trade Marks;

• " set of articles " means a number of articles of the same general character ordinarily on sale or intended to be used together, to each of which the same design, or the same design with modifications or variations not sufficient to alter the character or substantially to affect the identity thereof, is applied.

(2)Any reference in this Act to an article in respect of which a design is registered shall, in the case of a design registered in respect of a set of articles, be construed as a reference to any article of that set.

(3)Any question arising under this Act whether a number of articles constitute a set of articles shall be determined by the registrar; and notwithstanding anything in this Act any determination of the registrar under this subsection shall be final.

(4)For the purposes of subsection'(1) of section fourteen and of section sixteen of this Act, the expression " personal representative ", in relation to a deceased person, includes the legal representative of the deceased appointed in any country outside the United Kingdom.