Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2024C00672:section:33
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2024C00672
Segment Type: section
Provision Reference: s 33
Character Range: 46766–47733

33  Lapsing of design applications
 (1) A design application lapses if the Registrar has given the applicant a notification under section 41 in respect of the application, and the applicant has not, within the period prescribed by the regulations:
 (a) requested that the application be amended; or
 (b) responded in writing to the notification as mentioned in subparagraph 41(c)(ii);
in such a way that the Registrar is satisfied that the application meets the applicable requirements of Chapter 4.
 (2) If the Registrar has, under section 137, extended a period within which a thing mentioned in subsection (1) is to be done, a reference in subsection (1) to a period is a reference to the extended period.
 (4) The Registrar must publish a notice stating that a design application has lapsed under subsection (1). The notice must satisfy the requirements prescribed by the regulations.

Chapter 4—Registration of designs

Part 1—Simplified outline of Chapter 4