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Registered Designs Act 1949

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35Fine for falsely representing a design as registered.

(1)If any person falsely represents that a design applied to any article sold by him is registered in respect of that article, he shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding five pounds ; and for the purposes of this provision a person who sells an article having stamped, engraved or impressed thereon or otherwise applied thereto the word " registered", or any other word expressing or implying that the design applied to the article is registered,' shall be deemed to represent that the design applied to the article is registered in respect of that article.

(2)If any person, after the copyright in a registered design has expired, marks any article to which the design has been applied with the word " registered ", or any word or words implying that there is a subsisting copyright in the design, or causes any such article to be so marked, he shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding five pounds.

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