308 No. 6 of 2016] Layout-designs of Integrated Circuits (5) The Registrar may, where the Registrar determines after accepting an application for registration of a layout-design but before registering the layout-design that the layout-design does not comply with subsection (1), and after hearing the applicant on the matter, withdraw the acceptance of the application. (6) A layout-design when registered in accordance with subsection (5) is be deemed to have been registered from the date of application. Advertisements of application 16. (1) Where an application of a layout-design has been accepted, the applicant shall, as soon as may be after acceptance, advertise the application as accepted in the prescribed manner, and the advertisement shall set forth all amendments or modifications subject to the application. (2) Where after advertisement of an application: (a) an error in the application has been corrected; or (b) the application has been permitted to be amended under section eighteen, the Registrar may in the Registrar’s discretion cause the application to be advertised again or, in any case falling under subsection 2(b), may, instead of causing the application to be advertised again, notify the applicant in the prescribed manner the correction or amendment made in the application. Opposition to Registration 17. (1) Any person may, within two months from the date of the advertisement or re-advertisement of an application for registration give notice to the Registrar in writing in the prescribed manner and accompanied by a statement of the grounds of opposition. (2) The Registrar may allow for an extension of the notice period, not exceeding one month on application made to the Registrar in the prescribed manner. (3) The Registrar shall serve a copy of the notice on the applicant for registration and, within two months from the receipt by the applicant of such copy of the notice of opposition, the applicant shall send to the Registrar in the prescribed manner a counterstatement of the grounds on which the applicant relies for the application and if the applicant does not do so, the applicant is deemed to have abandoned the application.