UNITED KINGDOM DESIGNS (PROTECTION) ACT 1949

Subject to the provisions of this Act, the registered Prot~on proprietor of any design registered in the United Kingdom ~~sd:=

under the Registe"red Designs Act, 1949, or any Act designs.

amending or substituted ·for that Act, or any person ~fa:

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deriving his right from such registered proprietor by assign-ment, transmission, or other operation of law, shall enjoy in West Malaysia, the like privileges and rights as though the Certificate of Registration in the United Kingdom had been issued with an extension to West Malaysia.

The registered proprietor of a design shall not be entitled saving.

to r~over_ any damages in respect of any infringement of copyright 1n a design from any def end ant who proves that at the date of the infringement he was not aware nor had any reasonable means of making himself aware of the existence of the registration of the design :

Provided that nothing in this section shall affect any proceedings for an injunction.

[S. 5.7, Schedule]

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Power of

High

Court.

Evidence.

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_peJso~trected, to declare that exclusive privile~en preJu~ci~ ~n a design have not ~een acquired in We:s and n!! ~nder the provisions ?f this ~ct upon any of th!

Malayds upon which the Umted Kingdom registration gr~u;: be cancelled under the law for the time being in fofce in the United Kingdom.

Comptroller-General of Uruted_ Kingd~m P~tents Designs and Trade Marks sh~l b~ pnma f_ac1e ey1dence of the registration of any d~s1gn. m the Um~ed Kmgdom and of any particulars contamed m such certificate.

The written laws specified in the Schedule to this Act are hereby repealed.

(Section 6)

REPEAL

No.

Title

S.S. Ordinance No. 17 of 1938

The

United

Kingdom

Designs

(Protection) Ordinance. 1938

F.M.S. Enactment No. 15 of 1941

The

United

Kingdom

Designs

(Protection) Enactment, 1941

Johore Enactment No. 20 of

The

United

Kingdom

Designs 1941

(Protection) Enactment, 1941

Kedah Enactment No. 26 of

The

United

Kingdom

Designs 1357

(Protection) Enactment

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vNJTED KINGDOM DESIGNS (PROTECTION)

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(Revised-1978)

particulars under seclion 7 (ii) and (iii) of the Revision of

Laws Act, 1968 (Act J)

LIST OF AMENDMENTS

Nil

LIST OF LAWS OR PARTS THEREOF SUPERSEDED

No.

54 of 1949

Title

United Kingdom Designs (Protection) Ordinance,

1949.

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