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No. 22 of 2016]
Industrial Design
(a) particulars of designs;
(b) licences, assignments or transmissions of designs;
(c) notices of matters which are required, in accordance with
this Act to be entered in the Register; and
(d) such other matters affecting the validity or ownership of
a design, as may be prescribed.
(2) The Register may be established in nonelectronic or
electronic form or partly in electronic form.
(3) Where the Register is kept wholly or partly in electronic
form, reference in this Act to—
(a) an entry in the Register shall include reference to a record
of particulars kept in electronic form;
(b) particulars being entered in the Register shall include
references to the keeping of records in electronic form;
and
(c) the rectification of the Register shall include references
to the rectification of the record of particulars kept in
electronic form.
Rectification
of Register
11. The Registrar shall, where a design has been registered in
accordance with section fifty-one and entered into the Registrar
as provided in section ten, rectify the Register, if the court so orders,
at the instance of the Registrar or a proprietor.
Inspection
of register
and
evidentiary
proof
12. (1) Subject to this Act, the Register shall, on payment of
the prescribed fee, be open for inspection by the public during
prescribed hours.
(2) The Register shall be prima facie evidence of any matters
required or authorised, by or in accordance with this Act, to be
entered in the Register.
(3) A copy of any entry in the Register or an extract from the
Register, certified by the Registrar, shall be admitted in evidence
without further proof and without production of the original copy.
Regulations
on
registration
processes
and
procedures
13. (1) The Minister may, by statutory instrument, make
regulations for, or with respect to, any matter under this Part that is
to be prescribed or necessary for carrying out or giving effect to
the registration processess and procedures.