Hong Kong Regulations

REGISTERED DESIGNS RULES - SECT 60B

Terms for electronic filing

(1) Without limiting the generality of section 60A(3), the Registrar may
specify terms under that section—

   (a)  providing for the approval by the Registrar of the process that must
        be used to make or send an electronic record;

   (b)  providing for the approval by the Registrar of the format or media in
        which an electronic record must be recorded or stored;

   (c)  respecting the manner of authenticating an electronic record in
        circumstances where the document or other thing in question is
        required to be signed or sealed or authenticated in any manner;

   (d)  requiring any document or other thing sent to the Registrar in the
        form of an electronic record to include or be accompanied by the
        electronic signature or digital signature of the person who sends it;
        and

   (e)  respecting the manner of filing a document or other thing in cases
        where there is an interruption in the operation of the information 
        system designated under section 60A(2).

(2) Without limiting the generality of section 60A(3), the Registrar may
refuse to accept or to register any document or other thing that is in the
form of an electronic record if—

   (a)  the information contained in the electronic record is not capable of
        being displayed in a legible form;

   (b)  the electronic record is not capable of being stored in the
        information system designated under section 60A(2);

   (c)  the electronic record appears to the Registrar to be altered, damaged
        or incomplete;

   (d)  any electronic signature or digital signature or other kind of
        authentication accompanying or included with the electronic record
        appears to the Registrar to be altered or incomplete; or

   (e)  any term specified by the Registrar under that section has been
        breached. (L.N. 38 of 2004)