| The Designs Act (India) 2000 | The Design Rules (India) 2001 |
| CHAPTER I (PRELIMINARY) | Design Rules (India) 2001 – PRELIMINARY |
| SECTION 1: Short title, extent and commencement | |
| SECTION 2: Definitions | Design Rules (India) 2001 – APPLICATION FOR REGISTRATION |
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| CHAPTER II (REGISTRATION OF DESIGNS) | Design Rules (India) 2001 – MARKING OF ARTICLES |
| SECTION 3: Controller and other officers | |
| SECTION 4: Prohibition of registration of certain designs | Design Rules (India) 2001 – INSPECTIONS AND SEARCHES |
| SECTION 5: Application for registration of designs | |
| SECTION 6: Registration to be in respect of particular article | Design Rules (India) 2001 – CANCELLATION |
| SECTION 7: Publication of particulars of registered designs | |
| SECTION 8: Power of Controller to make orders regarding substitution of application, etc. | Design Rules (India) 2001 – GENERAL – REGISTER OF DESIGNS |
| SECTION 9: Certificate of registration | |
| SECTION 10: Register of designs | Design Rules (India) 2001 – CERTIFICATES |
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| CHAPTER III (COPYRIGHT IN REGISTERED DESIGNS) | Design Rules (India) 2001 – AWARD OF COST BY CONTROLLER |
| SECTION 11: Copyright on registration | |
| SECTION 12: Restoration of lapsed designs | Design Rules (India) 2001 – MISCELLANEOUS POWERS OF CONTROLLER |
| SECTION 13: Procedure for disposal of applications for restoration of lapsed designs | |
| SECTION 14: Rights of proprietor of lapsed design which have been restored | Design Rules (India) 2001 – REPEAL |
| SECTION 15: Requirements before delivery on sales | |
| SECTION 16: Effect of disclosure on copyright | |
| SECTION 17: Inspection of registered designs | |
| SECTION 18: Information as to the existence of copyright | |
| SECTION 19: Cancellation of registration | |
| SECTION 20: Designs to bind Government | |
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| CHAPTER IV (INDUSTRIAL AND INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITIONS) | |
| SECTION 21: Provisions as to exhibitions | |
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| CHAPTER V (LEGAL PROCEEDINGS) | |
| SECTION 22: Piracy of registered design | |
| SECTION 23: Application of certain provisions of the Act as to patents to designs | |
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| CHAPTER VI (GENERAL) | |
| SECTION 24: Fees | |
| SECTION 25: Notice of trust not to be entered in registers | |
| SECTION 26: Inspection of and extracts from registers | |
| SECTION 27: Privilege of reports of Controller | |
| SECTION 28: Prohibition and publication of specification, drawings, etc. where application abandoned, etc. | |
| SECTION 29: Power of Controller to correct clerical errors | |
| SECTION 30: Entry of assignment and transmissions in registers | |
| SECTION 31: Rectification of register | |
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| CHAPTER VII (POWERS AND DUTIES OF CONTROLLER) | |
| SECTION 32: Powers of Controller in proceedings under Act | |
| SECTION 33: Exercise of discretionary power by Controller | |
| SECTION 34: Power of Controller to take directions of the Central Government | |
| SECTION 35: Refusal to register a design in certain cases | |
| SECTION 36: Appeals to High Court | |
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| CHAPTER VIII (EVIDENCE, ETC.) | |
| SECTION 37: Evidence before the Controller | |
| SECTION 38: Certificate of Controller to be evidence | |
| SECTION 39: Evidence of documents in patent office | |
| SECTION 40: Applications and notices by post | |
| SECTION 41: Declaration by infant, lunatic, etc. | |
| SECTION 42: Avoidance of certain restrictive conditions | |
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| CHAPTER IX (AGENCY) | |
| SECTION 43: Agency | |
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| CHAPTER X (POWERS, ETC., OF CENTRAL GOVERNMENT) | |
| SECTION 44: Reciprocal arrangement with the United Kingdom and other convention countries or group of countries or inter-governmental organizations | |
| SECTION 45: Report of the Controller to be placed before Parliament | |
| SECTION 46: Protection of security of India | |
| SECTION 47: Power of Central Government to make rules | |
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| CHAPTER XI (REPEAL AND SAVINGS) | |
| SECTION 48: Repeal and savings | |
