20Application for registration

20 Application for registration

(1) The owner of a design is entitled to make application for the registration of the design. (2) Where 2 or more persons own interests in a design, all of the persons owning such interests, acting jointly, are entitled to make application for the registration of the design. (3) An application for registration of a design: (a) shall be in accordance with a prescribed form; (b) shall be accompanied, as prescribed, by the prescribed number of representations of an article to which the design is applied; and (c) shall be lodged by being left at, or delivered by post to, the Designs Office or a sub‑office. (4) An application under subsection (3) may be accompanied by a statement of monopoly in respect of the design to which the application relates. (5) Upon lodgment of an application under subsection (3): (a) the Registrar may request the applicant to furnish a statement of novelty in respect of the design to which the application relates; and (b) if the application was not accompanied by a statement of monopoly in respect of the design to which the application relates and the Registrar considers it appropriate that such a statement be furnished—the Registrar may request the applicant to furnish such a statement. (6) Where the owner of a design wishes to register the design in respect of more than one article, the owner shall make a separate application for registration of the design in respect of each article. (7) For the purposes of subsection (6), a set of articles shall be deemed to be one article.