Section 19, The Patents and Industrial Design Act, 2012

(1) The Registrar may direct that any application found inorder as to form shall be the subject of an international-type search. (2) When a direction under subsection (1) is made, the Registrar shall invite the applicant to pay the prescribed fees: and if the applicant does not comply with the invitation, the application shall be rejected by the Registrar. (3) Upon receipt of the report on the international-type search, the Registrar may request the applicant to furnish the Registrar with a copy of any document cited in the report and if without lawful reason, any copy is not furnished within the prescribed time limit, the application shall be rejected. (4) If it is apparent from the international-type search or from the refusal to furnish the report, that the subject of the application or of any claim or claims is not an invention, the Registrar shall reject the defective application or consider the defective claim or claims to be withdrawn, as the case may be, unless the applicant satisfies the Registrar that the subject of the application or claims constitutes an invention. (5) Where it is apparent from the report on the internationaltype search or from the refusal to furnish the report, that - (a) the description, claims or, where applicable, the drawings do not comply in whole or in part, with the prescribed requirements to such an extent that no meaningful search could be carried out; or (b) the application does not comply, in whole or in part, with the requirement of unity of invention prescribed in section 12 and the Regulations pertaining to it, the Registrar shall reject the application unless the applicant either satisfies the Registrar that the requirements have been fulfilled or amends or divides the application so as to comply with the requirements. (6) The details of the requirements and the procedures under this section shall be prescribed by regulations.