Textile Designs (Registration) ACT, 1973 (NRCD 213)
Section 9: (1) The copyright in a registered design shall, subject to the provisions of this Decree subsist for a period of five years and shall be renewable for two further periods of five years each.
(2) The Registrar shall on application made by the registered proprietor in the prescribed manner and within the prescribed period, and on payment of the prescribed fee in this Decree referred to as the "renewal fee" renew the registration of a textile design for a period of five years from the date of the expiration of the original period or of the last renewal date as the case may be.
(3) The Registrar may send a notice in the prescribed manner to the registered proprietor three months before the expiration of the last registration informing him of the date of the expiration.
(4) If at the expiration of the prescribed time the registered proprietor has not paid the renewal fees aforesaid the Registrar shall remove the textile design from the register.
(5) Failure to remove the design from the register by the Registrar at the expiry date shall not give to the registered proprietor any copyright in the design after that date.
(6) Where a textile design has been removed from the register for non-payment of renewal fee it shall nevertheless for the purpose of any applicaticant for the registration of a textile design during one year next after the date of the removal be deemed to be a textile design that is already on the register.
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