144
No. 18 of 1980]
Patents (Amendment)
Amondment
of section 23
5. Section twenty-three of the principal Act is amended in
subsection (3) by the delet-ion in paragraph (c) of " Patents
Tribunal" and the substitution therefor of " High Court".
Amendment
of section 24
6. Section tuientif-four of tho principal Act is amended in
subsection (5) by the deletion of" Patents Tribunal" and tho
substitution therefor of" High Court".
Amendment
of section 25
7. Section twenty-five of the principal Act is amended in
proviso (i) to subsection (2) by the deletion of "Patents
Tribunal" and tho substitution therefor of " High COllrt".
Amendment
of section 30
8. Section thirty of the principal Act is amended
(c) in subsection (1) by the deletion of" Patents Tribunal"
and the substitution therefor of" Registrar";
(b) in paragraph (c) (Jf subsection (2) by tho deletion of
"Patents Tribunal" and the substitution therefor
of" Registrar ";
(c) in subsection (3)
(i) by the deletion of "registrar of the Patents
Tribunal" and the substitution therefor of
" Registrar " ;
(ii) by the deletion of" by that Tribunal";
(d) in subsection (4) by the deletion of the words" Patents
Tribunal" wherever they occur and the substitution
therefor of" Registrar";
(e) in subsection (7) by the deletion of" Patents Tribunal"
and the substitution therefor of" Registrar";
(f) by tho addition after subsection (7) of the following
new su bsection :
(8) An appeal shall lie from any decision of the
Registrar undor this section.
.
Amondment
of section 31
9. Section thirty-one of the principal Act is amended in
the proviso to subsection (5) by the doletion uf "Patents
Tribunal" and the substitution therefor of" High Court".
Amendment
of secLion 37
10. Section thirtY-8el}(~nof the principal Act is amended
(a) by the deletion of subsection (5) and tho substitution
therefor of the following su bsoetion :
(5) When, in relation to an application or an
opposition thereto, the foregoing provisions of
this section have boon complied with to tho extent
therein required, the Registrar shall Bond all rele
vant papers to the High Court, and that court shall
arrange for the matter to be heard in the manner
proscribed and, subject to the provisions of this
section, the High Court may make such order
therein as it deems just. ;