548 No. 22 of 2016] Industrial Design (a) where the application is made or considered to have been made in accordance with this Act, it may be processed but— (i) the application shall not be published; (ii) any information relating to the application shall not be communicated to any unauthorised person; and (iii) a design shall not be registered as applied for; (b) where it is an application for an ARIPO registration of a design, the application shall not be sent to the ARIPO office; and (2) Where the Registrar issues directions against an application for the registration of a design, as specified in section seventyfive, the Registrar shall give notice, within a prescribed period, to the Minister responsible for defence or the Minister responsible for internal security, as the case may be, of such directions and the reasons for the directions and the Minister shall, on receipt of the notice, consider whether the publication or communication of such an application and the information contained in the application would be prejudicial to the defence of the country or the safety of the public. (3) Where the Minister responsible for defence, after considering the notice, referred to in subsection (2), determines that the publication or communication of the application or the registration of a design and the information contained therein, shall be prejudicial to the defence of the country or the safety of the public, the Minister shall notify the Registrar to maintain the directions in force until notification to revoke them is given by the Minister. (4) Where the directions referred to in section seventy-five, are not issued or revoked soon after notification, the Minister responsible for defence shall review the directions, within a period of nine months from the date of filing of the application for the registration of a design or once in every subsequent period of twelve months.