EXPLANATORY STATEMENT
STATUTORY RULES 1990 NO. 29
Issued by the Authority of the Minister of State for Industry, Technology and Commerce.
The Statutory Rules amend the Designs Regulations to make new provisions for the purposes of subsection 42(4) of the Designs Act 1906 (the Act). The Statutory Rules also amend the Regulations to clarify that a fee for the doing of an act by a person other than the Registrar is payable to the Registrar. Details of the amendments are as follows:
Regulation 1 provides for commencement of the Regulations on the same day as the commencement of section 31 of the Industry, Technology and Commerce Legislation Amendment Act (No.2) 1989, which is 14 February 1990.
Regulation 2 amends regulation 4 of the Designs Regulations. Paragraph 2(a) substitutes new subregulation 4(1) to indicate that the fee specified in column 3 of an item in Schedule 2 is prescribed for the lodging of the document, or the doing of the act by the Registrar or a person other than the Registrar, referred to in column 2 of that item. Paragraph 2(b) adds new subregulation 4(3) which specifies for the purposes of subsection 42(4) of the Act, that the Registrar is to notify the person or his or her agent in writing within 7 days after the lodging of the document, or the doing of the act, for which the fee is payable.