Designs Act

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The Designs Act, 2000 [Act No. 16 of 2000] [25th May, 2000] PREAMBLE An Act to consolidate and amend the law relating to protection of designs. BE it enacted by Parliament in the Fifty-first Year of the Republic of India as follows:- (1) This Act may be called the Designs Act, 2000. (2) It extends to the whole of India. (3) It shall come into force on such date [1] as the Central Government may, by notification, in the Official Gazette, appoint; and different dates may be appointed for different provisions of this Act, and any reference in any such provision to the commencement of this Act shall be construed as a reference to the coming into force of that provision. Footnotes ^ 11th May, 2001, vide notification No. S.O. 414(E), dated 11th May, 2001, see Gazette of India, Extraordinary, Part II, sec. 3(ii). In this Act, unless there is anything repugnant in the subject or context, - (a) "article" means any article of manufacture and any substance, artificial, or partly artificial and partly natural; and includes any part of an article capable of being made and sold separately; (b) "Controller" means the Controller-General of Patents, Designs and Trade Marks referred to in section 3;