Section 51, The Patents and Industrial Design Act, 2012

(1) The application for registration of an industrial designshall be filed with the Registrar and shall contain- (a) request; (b) drawings; (c) photographs or other adequate graphic representations of the article embodying the industrial design; (d) an indication of the kinds of products for which the industrial design is to be used; and (e) a specimen of the article embodying the industrial design, where the industrial design is two-dimensional. (2) The application shall be subject to the payment of the prescribed application fee. (3) Where the applicant is not the creator, the request shall be accompanied by a statement justifying the applicant's right to registration of the industrial design. (4) Section 15 shall apply mutatis mutandis to this section. (5) Two or more industrial designs may be the subject of the same application, provided they relate to the same class of the international classification or to the same set or composition of articles. (6) The application, at the time of filing, may contain a request that the publication of the industrial design, upon registration, be deferred for a period not exceeding twelve months from the date of filing or, if priority is claimed, from the date of priority, of the application. (7) The applicant may withdraw the application at any time during its pendency.