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of registration for a further period of 5 years.
"(13) Where—
      (a) the period of registration of a design has been extended under sub-section (12); and
      (b) application is made to the Registrar for a further extension of that period of registration,
the Registrar shall, subject to this Act, extend that period of registration for a further period of 5 years.
"(14) An application under sub-section (12) or (13) shall be made in the manner, and within the period, prescribed for the purposes of that sub section.
"(15) The Registrar shall cause to be published in the Official Journal notice of—
      (a) an application under sub-section (2) for extension of the period of registration of a design;
      (b) a refusal under sub-section (9) of such an application; and
      (c) each extension under this section of the period of registration of a design.
"(16) Where—
      (a) a registered design was, at the time when it was registered, a corresponding design in relation to an artistic work in which copyright subsisted under the Copyright Act 1968;

      (b) by reason of a previous use of that artistic work, the design would not have been registrable under this Act but for section 17a; and
      (c) the copyright in that artistic work under the Copyright Act 1968 expires before the date on which the registration of the design ceases to be in force,
the registration of the design ceases to be in force at the same time as the copyright in the artistic work and shall not be extended after that time.

"(17) Notwithstanding the preceding provisions of this section, where a design has ceased to be a design to which section 25d applies, the period of registration of the design shall not be extended beyond the last date to which the period of registration of the design that was the original design, within the meaning of section 25d, in relation to the design that has so ceased could have been extended under this section.

"(18) In this section, 'design' does not include a design to which section 25d applies.

Application for restoration of registered design
"27b. (1) Where—
      (a) the period of registration of a design has been extended under sub-section 27a (8); and
      (b) the registration of the design has subsequently ceased to be in force by reason of—
         (i) failure to make application to the Registrar, within the period prescribed for the purposes of sub-section 27a (12) or (13), as the case may be, for a further extension of that period of registration; or
         (ii) failure to pay a prescribed fee within the prescribed period,
then—
      (c) the owner of the design;
      (d) if the owner of the design has died—the legal