123Deputy Registrars

#### 123 Deputy Registrars (1) There is to be at least one Deputy Registrar of Designs. (2) Subject to any direction by the Registrar, a Deputy Registrar has all the powers and functions of the Registrar under this Act or any other Act, except the Registrar’s powers of delegation under section 124. (3) A power or function of the Registrar under this Act or any other Act, when exercised or performed by a Deputy Registrar, is to be taken for the purposes of this Act or any other Act to have been exercised or performed by the Registrar. (4) The exercise of a power, or function, of the Registrar under this Act or any other Act by a Deputy Registrar does not prevent the exercise of the power, or the performance of the function, by the Registrar. (5) If the exercise of a power or function by the Registrar, or the operation of a provision of this Act or any other Act, depends on the opinion, belief or state of mind of the Registrar in relation to a matter: (a) that power or function may be exercised by a Deputy Registrar upon the opinion, belief or state of mind of the Deputy Registrar in relation to that matter; and (b) that provision may operate upon the opinion, belief or state of mind of a Deputy Registrar in relation to that matter.