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Short Title and Commencement 1
Amendment of Section 3 1
New Section 13a 1
An Act to amend the Industrial Designs Act 1996.
ENACTED by the Parliament of Malaysia as follows:
1.—(1) This Act may be cited as the Industrial Designs (Amendment) Act 2000.
(2) This Act shall come into operation on a date to be appointed by the Minister by notification in the Gazette.
2. The Industrial Designs Act 1996 [Act 552], which in this Act is referred to as the “principal Act”, is amended in subsection 3(1) in the definition of “article”—
(a) by inserting after the word “separately” the words “but does not include an integrated circuit or part of an integrated circuit within the meaning of the Layout-Designs of Integrated Circuits Act 2000, or a mask used to make such an integrated circuit”; and
(b) by inserting the marginal reference “Act 601” against the words “Layout-Designs of Integrated Circuits Act 2000”.
3. The principal Act is amended by inserting after section 13 the following section:
“Certain Registrations not to be Extended or Restored
13a. Notwithstanding any other provision of this Act, where before the commencement of the Layout-Designs of Integrated Circuits Act 2000 an industrial design applicable to an integrated circuit or part of an integrated circuit within the meaning of that Act or an industrial design applicable to a mask used to make such an integrated circuit was registered under this Act, that registration shall not be extended or restored at any time on or after that commencement.”.