The Registered Designs Rules 2006

Security for costs

23.—(1) The registrar may require a person to give security for the costs of any application or appeal mentioned in section 30(3) if—

(a) he is satisfied, having regard to all the circumstances of the case, that it is just to require such security; and

(b) one or more of the conditions in paragraph (2) applies.

(2) The conditions are—

(a) the person is resident outside the United Kingdom but—

(i) not resident in a Brussels Contracting State,

(ii) a Lugano Contracting State, or

(iii) a Regulation State,

as defined in section 1(3) of the Civil Jurisdiction and Judgments Act 1982(1);

(b) the person is a company or other body (whether incorporated inside or outside the United Kingdom) and there is reason to believe that it will be unable to pay the other person’s costs if ordered to do so;

(c) the person has changed his address since filing an address for service with a view to evading the consequences of the proceedings;

(d) the person has furnished an incorrect address for service;

(e) the person has taken steps in relation to his assets that would make it difficult to enforce an order for costs against him;

(f) the person has failed to pay a costs order in relation to previous proceedings before the registrar or a court (whether or not the proceedings were between the same parties).

(3) In default of such security being given the registrar may treat the application or appeal as abandoned.

(1)

1982 c. 27.