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IP/N/1/GBR/D/4  
 
18 September 2020  
(20-6271)  Page: 1/2 
Council for Trade -Related Aspects of  
Intellectual Property Rights  Original: English  
 
NOTIFICATION OF LAWS AND REGULATIONS UNDER  
ARTICLE 63.2 OF THE TRIPS AGREEMENT  
UNITED KINGDOM : THE REGISTERED DESIGNS (AMENDMENT) RULES 1999  
Notifying Member  UNITED KINGDOM  
 
Details of the notified legal text  
 
Title The Registered Designs (Amendment) Rules 1999  
Subject matter  Industrial designs  
Nature of 
notification  [X] Main dedicated intellectual property law or regulation  
[  ] Other law or regulation  
Link to legal text* https://ip -documents.info/2020/IP/GBR/20_5509_00_e.pdf  
Notification status  [  ] First notification  
[X] Amendment or revision to notified legal text  
[  ] Replacement or consolidation of notified legal text(s)  
Previous 
notification(s) 
referred to  IP/N/1/GBR /D/2 
Brief description of the notified legal text  
 
The Rules amend the Registered Designs Rules 1995. In addition to minor and drafting amendments, 
the Rules make provision for the particular size and number of documents and representations of 
designs filed before the registrar, for the form of certificate and omit Schedul e 2 (r10 and 21), for 
the registrar to vary time limits where he considered it appropriate and to call case management 
conferences or set pre -hearing reviews, for the giving of  evidence by witness statement and the 
calling of witnesses, extend the hours during which public inspection of the register is permitted, 
extend the hours for certain transactions of business, introduce an excluded day (4/1/2000) and 
omit the requirement to use Form 9A in relation to extensions for further periods of five years.   
 
Language(s) of 
notified legal text English  
Entry into force  22 December 1999; 
http://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1999/3196/contents/made  
Other date    IP/N/1/GBR/3 • IP/N/1/GBR/D/4  
 
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  Notification details  
 
Submission date 
of notification  19 August 2020  
Other information  http://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1999/3196/contents/made  - 
Amends/replaces: The Registered Designs Rules 1995 (SI 1995/2912)  
 
Agency or 
authority 
responsible  UK Intellectual Prop erty Office  
 
Concept House  
Cardiff Road  
Newport  
South Wales  
NP10 8QQ  
United Kingdom  
 
information@ipo.gov.uk  
 
0300 300 2000  
 
Outside the UK:  
+44 (0)1633 814000  
 
 
* Links are provided to texts of laws and regulations notified under the TRIPS Agreement in the form 
supplied by the Member concerned; the WTO Secretariat does not endorse or revise their content.   