Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

DESIGNS ACT 2003 - SECT 105

  (1)   This section applies if:

  (a)   the Commonwealth has made an agreement with a foreign country to supply to the country a product in relation to which a design is registered, which embodies the design; and

  (b)   the product is required for the defence of the country.

  (2)   The use of the product by the Commonwealth, or by a person authorised in writing by the Commonwealth, for the purposes of supplying the product is taken, for the purposes of this Part, to be a use of the product by the Commonwealth for the services of the Commonwealth.

  (3)   The Commonwealth or the authorised person may:

  (a)   sell the product to the country under the agreement; and

  (b)   sell to any person any of the products that are not required for the purpose for which they were made.