LAWS OF MALAWI
Registered Designs
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Registered Designs
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Any person who, having innocently made a false statement or representation, whether
orally or in writing, for the purpose of procuring or influencing the doing or omission of
anything in relation to this Act or any matter thereunder and who on becoming aware
that such statement or representation was false fails to advice the Registrar forthwith of
such falsity, shall be guilty of an offence.
Any person who, after having been sworn or having in lieu thereof made an affirmation or
declaration, willfully gives false evidence before the Registrar or the Tribunal concerning the
subject-matter of the proceeding in question, knowing such evidence to be false or not knowing
or believing it to be true, shall be guilty of an offence.
Save where otherwise provided in this Act, any person who is guilty of an offence under this Act
shall be liable to a fine £500 and to imprisonment for three years..
Witness giving
False evidence
Penalties
PART IX
MISCELLANEOUS
52.
Where by this Act any act has to be done by or to any person in connection with a design or any
procedure relating thereto, the act may under and in accordance with the regulations or, in
particular cases, by special leave of the Registrar be done by or to an agent of that person duly
Recognition of agents
authorized in the prescribed manner.
53.
(1) Any application, notice or document authorized or required under this Act to be lodged, made
or given at the Designs Office or to the Registrar or to any other person may be delivered by hand
or sent by registered post.
(2)
54.
No authentication shall be required in respect of any document lodged in the Designs
Office under this Act or used in proceedings before the Tribunal.
(1) Where under this Act -
(2)
Lodging and
authentication
of documents
Provisions as to fees
(a)
a fee is payable in respect of the performance of any act by the Registrar, the
Registrar shall not perform that act until the fee has been paid:
(b)
a fee is payable in respect of the doing of any act by any person other than the
Registrar, the act shall be deemed not to have been done until the fee has been
paid; or
(c)
a fee is payable in respect of the lodging of a document, the document shall be
deemed not to have been lodged until the fee has been paid.
All fees shall be paid at the Designs Office in such manner as the Registrar, with the
approval of the Minister, may accept.
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