(1) An application for registration of an industrial design shall be filed with the registrar and shall contain a request, drawings, photographs or other adequate graphic representations of the article embodying the industrial design and an indication of the kind of products for which the industrial design is to be used.
(2) The application may be accompanied by a specimen of the article embodying the industrial design where the industrial design is two-dimensional.
(3) Where the applicant is not the creator, the request shall be accompanied by a statement justifying the applicant's right to the registration of the industrial design.
(4) The application may contain a declaration claiming priority, as provided for in the Paris Convention, of one or more earlier national or regional applications or international deposits filed by the applicant or his or her predecessor in title in or for any State party to that Convention.
(5) Where the application contains a declaration referred to in subsection 4), the Registrar may require that the applicant furnish, within the prescribed time limit, a copy of the earlier application or international deposit, certified as correct by the office with which it was filed, and the effect of that declaration shall be as provided for in the Paris Convention.
(6) Where the Registrar finds that the requirements under this section and the regulations pertaining to a declaration are not fulfilled, the declaration shall be considered not to have been made.
(7) Two or more industrial designs may be the subject of the same application if they relate to the same class of International Classification or to the same set or composition of articles.
(8) An application, at the time of filing, may contain a request that the publication of the industrial design be deferred for a period not exceeding 12 months from the date of filing or, if priority is claimed from the date of priority of the application.
(9) The applicant may withdraw the application at any time during its pendency.
(10) An application is subject to the payment of the prescribed application fee.