Industrial Design
[No. 22 of 2016
547
72. The Registrar shall, on the application of an interested
person or the Government, where a design has been registered in
accordance with section fifty-one and entered into the Register as
provided in section ten, cancel the registration of a registered design,
if the court so orders.
Cancellation
of
registration
by order of
Court
73. (1) The Registrar may, in consultation with the Minister,
if the Registrar is of the opinion that a registered design or the
mode in which the design is being exploited is prejudicial to the
environment, public safety or public health, cancel the registration
of a design.
Cancellation
of
registration
of registered
design in
public
interest
(2) Where the registration of a registered design is cancelled,
in accordance with this Part, the Registrar shall publish or cause to
be published the cancellation in the Industrial Property Journal
within a prescribed period from the date of cancellation.
74. Where the registration of a registered design is cancelled
in accordance with this Part, the design shall cease to be protected
from the date of cancellation.
Effect of
cancellation
of
registration
PART XII
PUBLICATION OR COMMUNICATION OF DESIGN RELATED TO
DEFENCE AND SECURITY
75. (1) The Minister responsible for defence or the Minister
responsible for internal security, as the case may be, may issue a
notice, in a prescribed manner, to the Registrar, directing the
Registrar to prohibit the publication or communication, to an
unauthorised person, of an application for the registration of a design
and information contained therein, which, in the opinion of the
Minister may, if published or communicated, be prejudicial to the
defence of the country or the safety of the public.
Prohibition
publication or
communication
of
information
prejudicial to
defence
(2) Where an application for the registration of a design is
filed with the Registrar, in accordance with this Act, and it appears
to the Registrar that the application contains information, referred
to in subsection (1), the Registrar may give directions prohibiting
the publication or communication of such information to an
unauthorised person for a period not exceeding three months from
the date on which such application was to be published in accordance
with section fifty.
76. (1) The directions issued by the Registrar, in section
seventy-five, shall have the following effects on an application for
the registration of a design:
Effects of
directions an
application