538 No. 22 of 2016] (2) Industrial Design Despite subsection (1), where — (a) an applicant, named in a joint application dies, the Registrar may, with the written consent of the deceased applicant’s legal representative, register the design and grant the certificate in the name or names of the surviving applicant or applicants named in the joint application; and (b) an applicant or joint applicants have agreed, in writing, to assign the design or a share in the design, the Registrar shall not, without proof of an executed instrument, register the design and grant the certificate in the name of the assignee or their assignees. (3) Subject to any proceedings in accordance with this Act, the effective date of a registered design shall be the filing date of the application for the registration of a design. Date and term of registration 52. (1) Subject to this Act, a registered design certificate shall be dated as of the date on which the application was filed with the Registrar. (2) The date, referred to in subsection (1), shall be entered in the Register of designs, in the prescribed manner. (3) Subject to this Act, a registered design shall be valid for a period of five years from the filing date of the application for the registration of a design and may be renewed for a further period of five years, subject to the advertisement of the application in a prescribed manner and payment of a prescribed renewal fee. (4) The Registrar shall publish, in the Intellectual Property Journal, a design that has ceased to be protected by registration, as soon as is practicable. (5) A design in respect of which protection by registration has ceased, shall be removed from the Register. Publication of registration 53. The Registrar shall, as soon as practicable, publish, in a prescribed manner, a notice of the registration of a design or the renewal of the registration of a design, in the Industrial Property Journal. Restoration of design on Register 54. (1) Where a design has been removed from the Register under section fifty-two, a proprietor may, within six months of the removal, apply to the Registrar for the restoration of a design on the Register, in a prescribed manner. (2) Where the Registrar is satisfied that the omission to pay the maintenance fee was unintentional and that no undue delay has occurred in the making of the application referred to in subsection (1), the Registrar shall publish the application in the prescribed manner.