– Patents and Designs Act 1930.
– Patent and Designs Rules 1903.

– The Hague Convention Abolishing the Requirement of Legalization for Foreign Public Documents (Apostille) – in effect by extension from the U.K.

Applicant: the proprietor of any new or original design not previously published. 

Registrability: must be new.

Novelty: worldwide novelty is required.

Classification: based on the Locarno Agreement. 

Multiple applications: the same design may be registered in more than one class. 

Priority: within six months of registration.

Duration – beginning of protection: five years from the filing date.

Renewal: possible for two further consecutive periods of five years upon payment of the prescribed fee.

Assignment: possible.

License: possible.

Filing requirements for an application (to be sent to resident registered agent):
1. Authorization of agent;
2. If the applicant is not the creator, a statement or assignment justifying the applicant’s right to registration;
3. The application shall contain a request, drawings, photographs or other adequate graphic representations of the article embodying the industrial design and an indication of the kind of products for which it is to be used;
4. 3 specimens of the article embodying the industrial design where it is two-dimensional may accompany the application.

Electronic filing: not available. 

Electronic signatures: are not accepted.

Filing requirements for re-registration (to be sent to resident registered agent):
1. Authorization of agent;
2. Two certified copies of the original grant of the U.K. or EU design.