The Designs (International Registration of Industrial Designs) Order 2018

This Order is made under the powers conferred by section 15ZA of the Registered Designs Act 1949 (‘RDA’) to give effect in the United Kingdom to the Geneva Act of the Hague Agreement Concerning the International Registration of Industrial Designs and the Commons Regulations made under that Act. The Geneva Act, which was adopted on 2nd July 1999 and entered into force on 23rd December 2003, allows designers to obtain design protection in a number of countries through a single international registration. The text of the Geneva Act and the Common Regulations is available electronically from http://www.wipo.int/treaties/en/registration/hague.