22ADeath of applicant

##### 22A Death of applicant (1) If an applicant for the registration of a design dies before the design is registered, his legal personal representative may be registered as the owner of the design. (2) Where, at any time after a design has been registered on an application, the Registrar is satisfied that the applicant had died or, in the case of a body corporate, had ceased to exist, before the design was registered, the Registrar may amend the relevant entry in the register by substituting for the name of the applicant the name of the person who ought to have been registered as the owner of the design. (3) Where the Registrar has amended an entry in the register under subsection (2), the registration has effect, and shall be deemed always to have had effect, accordingly.