DESIGNS ACT 2003 - SECT 29 Disputes between applicants

DESIGNS ACT 2003 - SECT 29

  (1)   This section applies if a dispute arises between 2 or more persons in relation to whether, or in what manner, a design application should proceed.

  (2)   The Registrar may, on a request made in accordance with the regulations by any of the persons, make any determinations the Registrar thinks fit for either or both of the following purposes:

  (a)   enabling the application to specify which of those persons is an entitled person in relation to a design disclosed in the application;

  (b)   regulating the manner in which the application is to proceed.

  (3)   A person mentioned in subsection   (1) or (2) must be:

  (a)   the applicant; or

  (b)   a person who asserts that the person is an entitled person in relation to a design disclosed in the application.