s 15 Amendment of application
15.—(1) Subject to subsection (4) and the rules mentioned in section 74(2A), the Registrar may, on the Registrar’s own initiative or upon request made to the Registrar in the prescribed manner by the applicant and payment of the prescribed fee, amend an application for registration of a design.[Act 7 of 2022 wef 26/05/2022] (2) An application for registration of a design must not be amended if, as a result of the amendment, the scope of the application would be increased by the inclusion of matter that was not in substance disclosed in the application as filed. (3) The class or classes (under the classification mentioned in section 75(1)(c)) of articles, non‑physical products, or sets of articles and non‑physical products, to which a design is intended to be applied, as specified in an application for registration of the design, must not be amended if —(a) the application is derived under section 11(5) from an application filed under section 11(1) for the registration of 2 or more designs; and (b) the amendment would result in the articles, non‑physical products, or sets of articles and non‑physical products, to which any of those designs is intended to be applied, and the articles, non‑physical products, or sets of articles and non‑physical products, to which another of those designs is intended to be applied, falling within different classes.[29/2017] (4) The Registrar is not obliged to correct on his or her own initiative any error not due to the default of the Registrar. (5) Where the Registrar proposes to make any amendment on his or her own initiative, the Registrar must give notice of the proposal to every person who appears to the Registrar to be likely to be affected by the amendment, and must give the person an opportunity to be heard before making the amendment.