Registered Designs (Amendment) Rules 2022

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Published in Subsidiary Legislation Supplement
on 31 Mar 2022

No. S 262

Registered Designs Act 2000

Registered Designs
(Amendment) Rules 2022

In exercise of the powers conferred by section 74 of the Registered Designs Act 2000, the Minister for Law, after consulting with the Intellectual Property Office of Singapore, makes the following Rules:

Citation and commencement

1. These Rules are the Registered Designs (Amendment) Rules 2022 and come into operation on 1 April 2022.

Miscellaneous amendments

2. The Registered Designs Rules (R 1) are amended —

(a)

by deleting the word “leave” in the following provisions and substituting in each case the word “permission”:

Rule 7(1)(c) and (4)(i)

Rule 45

Rule 49(2)

Rule 49C(1), (2)(a) and (b) and (3);

(b)

by deleting the words “ex parte proceedings” in the following provision and substituting the words “proceedings at which only the party making the request is present”:

Rule 52A(1);

(c)

by deleting the words “inter partes interlocutory proceedings” in the following provision and substituting the words “interlocutory proceedings with notice”:

Rule 52A(3);

(d)

by deleting the words “inter partes proceedings” in the following provision and substituting the words “proceedings with notice”:

Rule 65(4)(a);

(e)

by deleting the words “ex parte hearing” in the following provision and substituting the words “hearing at which only the party making the request is present”:

First Schedule, item 24;

(f)

by deleting the words “an ex parte hearing” in the following provision and substituting the words “a hearing at which only the party making the request is present”:

Second Schedule, item 20;

(g)

by deleting the words “ex parte hearing” in the following provision and substituting the words “hearing at which only the party who requested the hearing was present”:

Second Schedule, item 21;

(h)

by deleting the words “Order 41 of the Rules of Court (Cap. 322, R 5)” in the following provision and substituting the words “Division 2 of Order 15 of the Rules of Court 2021 (G.N. No. S 914/2021)”:

Rule 54(1A);

(i)

by deleting the word “Taxation” in the following rule headings and substituting in each case the word “Assessment”:

Rule 56B

Rule 56C;

(j)

by deleting the word “taxed” wherever it appears in the following provisions and substituting in each case the word “assessed”:

Rule 56B(1)

Rule 56E;

(k)

by deleting the word “taxation” wherever it appears in the following provisions and substituting in each case the word “assessment”:

Rule 56B(1)(b), (2)(a) and (b), (2B), (4) and (6)

Rule 56C(1)

Rule 56D(1)(a) and (b) and (3)

Rule 56E (rule heading)

Fourth Schedule, item 11; and

(l)

by deleting the word “TAXATION” in the heading above item 10 of the Fourth Schedule and substituting the word “ASSESSMENT”.

[G.N. Nos. S 778/2004; S 556/2005; S 587/2011; S 742/2014; S 148/2017; S 574/2017; S 435/2020; S 690/2021]

Made on 30 March 2022.

LAI WEI LIN

Permanent Secretary,
Ministry of Law,
Singapore.

[LAW 06/015/001/ V14; AG/LEGIS/SL/266/2020/2 Vol. 2]

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