Designs Act 2003

The registration of a design ceases if an examination of the design has been requested and:

within the period prescribed for the purposes of paragraph 65(3)(b), the Registrar is not satisfied as mentioned in paragraph 67(1)(a) or 68(1)(a); or

the registered owner of the design has not paid the prescribed fee for the examination by the end of the period prescribed for payment.

The registration of a design also ceases at the end of the period mentioned in paragraph 46(1)(a) or (b), as the case requires.

If:

a registered design was, at the time of registration, a corresponding design in relation to an artistic work in which copyright subsisted under the Copyright Act 1968; and

the design would not have been registered under this Act apart from section 18; and

the copyright in the artistic work under the Copyright Act 1968 expires before the date on which registration of the design would (apart from this subsection) cease to be in force;

If the registration of a design ceases under subsection (1), any certificate of examination that was in force in respect of the design at the time the registration ceased is taken to be revoked at that time.