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(1) A person may apply to the Registrar for the registration of an industrial design.

(2) The application is subject to the payment of the prescribed fees and it shall contain

(a) a request, drawings, photographs or other adequate graphic representations of the industrial design; and

(b) an indication of the article which constitutes the industrial design or in relation to which the industrial design is to be used.

(3) Where the applicant is not the creator, the application shall contain a statement justifying the applicant's right to the registration of the industrial design.

(4) The application may contain

(a) a specimen of the articles embodying the industrial design, where the industrial design is twodimensional; and

(b) a declaration claiming priority, as provided for in the Schedule, of one or more earlier national or regional applications or international deposits filed by the applicant or applicant's predecessorintitle in or for any state party to that Convention or member of the World Trade Organisation.

(5) Where an application contains a declaration referred to in subsection (4)(b), the Registrar may require the applicant to furnish, within the prescribed time limit, a copy of the earlier application or international deposit, certified as correct by the office with which it was filed, and the effect of that declaration shall be as provided for in the Schedule.

(6) Where the Registrar finds that the requirements under this section and the Regulations pertaining to a declaration are not fulfilled, the declaration shall be considered not to have been made.

(7) Two or more industrial designs may be the subject of the same application if they relate to the same class of the International Classification or to the same set or composition of articles.

(8) The applicant may withdraw the application during its pendency.