46. Renewal

Registration of an industrial design may be renewed for two consecutive periods of five years each, on an application made in that behalf and on payment of the prescribed fee.

The renewal fee shall be paid within the six months preceding the date of expiration of the period of registration :

The Director-General shall record in the register and cause to be published in the Gazette in the prescribed form a list of all renewals of registration of industrial designs.

Where the renewal fee has not been paid within such period or such extended period as is specified in subsection (2), the Director-General shall remove from the relevant register the registration relating to such industrial design.