LAWS OF MALAWI Registered Designs Registered Designs Cap. 49:05 PART X APPLICATION AND TRANSITIONAL PROVISIONS 20 of 1936 59. (1) Any design which immediately before the 1st January 1964, was registered in the former Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland under any enactment relating to registered designs and was protected under the former Registered Designs legislation and any design which immediately before the date of commencement of the said legislation was registered in the United Kingdom under any enactment relating to registered designs and was protected in Malawi under the United Kingdom Designs (Protection) Ordinance (now repealed) shall be deemed to be registered under this Act and the copyright in that design shall subsist in Malawi while copyright therein would have subsisted in the said Federation or subsists in the United Kingdom as the case may be. (2) The Registrar may register a design referred to in subsection (1) upon application made before the 31st December 1964, by a person appearing to the Registrar to be the registered proprietor of that design in terms of the former Registered Designs legislation or of an enactment relating to registered designs in the United Kingdom. (3) The copyright in a design registered under subsection (2) (a) shall subsist in Malawi until the expiration of the current five year period for which it would have subsisted at the date of such registration under the said Act or as the case may be for which it is at the date of such registration subsisting in the United Kingdom. (b) may on application be extended in terms of section 15(2). For the purposes of determining the period for which the copyright may be so extended the date of registration under subsection (2) shall be deemed to be the date of registration in the said Federation or in the United Kingdom as the case may be. (4) Every application under this section shall be made in the prescribed form and shall be accompanied by the prescribed fee. (5) In this section, the expression “the former Registered Designs legislation” means this Act as in force from time to time prior to the 1st January 1964. 26 Application of Act and transitional proceedings