(1) As soon as practicable after the use of a design in the circumstances mentioned in subsection 96(3) or 96A(3), the relevant authority must inform the following persons of that use:
(a) in the case of a design that has not yet been registered--each applicant for registration of the design and each entitled person in relation to the design;
(b) in the case of a registered design--the registered owner.
(2) The relevant authority must also give to each person mentioned in paragraph (1)(a) or (b) such information about the use of the design as the person from time to time reasonably requires, unless it appears to the relevant authority that it would be contrary to the public interest to do so.