Commonwealth Consolidated Regulations Commonwealth Consolidated Regulations(1) For paragraph 17 (1) (a) of the Act, a prescribed circumstance is the publication or use of the design at:
(a) an official or officially recognised international exhibition within the meaning of:
(i) Article 11 of the Paris Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property done at Paris on 20 March 1883, as in force for Australia on the commencement of this subregulation; or
(ii) Article 1 of the Convention relating to International Exhibitions done at Paris on 22 November 1928, as in force for Australia on the commencement of this subregulation; or
(b) an international exhibition recognised by the Registrar by notice published in the Official Journal before the exhibition begins.
(2) The circumstance mentioned in subregulation (1) is a prescribed circumstance only if, at the time a design application is made in respect of the design:
(a) a notice, stating that the design has been exhibited, has been filed; and
(b) a document, issued by the authority responsible for the exhibition, that:
(i) identifies the design and the exhibition; and
(ii) states the date of opening of the exhibition; and
(iii) if the first publication or use of the design did not take place on that date -- states the date on which the first publication or use took place;
has been filed.
(3) For subsection 17 (1) of the Act, the prescribed period is 6 months from the date on which the first publication or use of the design took place.