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PART VI – Registrar General and Staff of Authority
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Registrar General
Duties of Registrar General
Appointment of Registrars, Deputy Registrars and Assistant Registrars
Appointment of other staff
PART VII – Financial Provisions
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Funds of Authority
Borrowing powers of Authority
Provision of information
Financial year
Accounts
Audit
Annual Report
Business plan
Pension and other funds
PART VIII – Miscellaneous Provisions
36. Indemnity
37. Regulations
38. Transitional arrangements
An Act to establish the Companies and Intellectual Property
Authority; to provide for its powers and functions; the establishment
of a Board of the Authority; three Offices within the Authority,
namely, the Companies and Business Names Office, the Industrial
Property Office and the Copyright Office; and for matters connected
or incidental thereto.
Date of Assent: 20.09.2011
Date of Commencement: ON NOTICE
ENACTED by the Parliament of Botswana.
PART I – Preliminary
Short title and
commencement
Interpretation
1. This Act may be cited as the Companies and Intellectual Property
Authority Act, 2011, and shall come into operation on such date as the
Minister may, by Order published in the Gazette, appoint.
2. In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires —
“Authority” means the Companies and Intellectual Property Authority
established under section 3;
“Board” means the Board of the Authority established under section 7;
“Chairperson” means the Chairperson of the Board appointed under
section 9 (1) (a);
“member” means a member of the Board appointed under section 9;
“Registrar General” means the chief executive officer of the Authority
appointed under section 23; and
“Secretary” means the Secretary of the Board appointed under section 10 (1).