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Industrial Property Act
2014
(2) Regulations made under subsection (1) may prescribe in
respect of a contravention of any of the regulations a penalty of a fine
not exceeding forty eight currency points or imprisonment not
exceeding two years of both.
(3) The regulations may also prescribe additional penalties in
respect of continuing offences and also a requirement that anything
used in the contravention shall be forfeited to the state by the court.
104. Corrections of errors and extension of time.
(1) The registrar may, subject to any provision in the regulations,
correct any error of translation or transcription, clerical error or
mistake in any application or document filed with the registry or in
any recording effected under this Act or under the regulations.
(2) Substantive errors, may only be modified by the court, under
due process.
(3) For the purposes of this section substantive errors are those
that, if modified, will affect the rights conferred.
(4) Unless otherwise provided in this Act, if the registrar is
satisfied that the circumstances justify it, he or she on receiving a
written request, may extend the time for doing any act or taking any
proceeding under this Act and the regulations, upon notice to the
parties concerned and upon such terms as he or she may direct.
(5) The extension may be granted even where the time for doing
the act or taking the proceeding has expired.
105. Exercise of discretionary powers.
The registrar shall give any party to a proceeding before an
opportunity of being heard before exercising adversely to that party
any discretionary power vested in him or her by this Act or the
regulations.
106. Power of Minister to amend Schedule.
The Minister may with the approval of Cabinet by statutory
instrument, amend the Schedule.
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