any proceedings as evidence of the title of any person to a registered
design or share of or interest in a registered design unless the High Court
or the Supreme Court otherwise directs.
(As amended by G.N. No. 187 of 1964
and Act No. 16 of 1980)
23. (1) The Registrar may authorise the correction of any clerical error Power of
or omission or error in translation in any application for the registration Registrar to
or in the representation of a design, or any error in the register.
authorise
corrections
(2) A correction may be made in pursuance of this section, either upon a
request in writing made by any person interested and accompanied by
the prescribed fee, or without such a request.
(3) Where it is proposed to make a correction otherwise than upon such
a request, the Registrar shall give notice of the proposal to the registered
proprietor or the applicant for registration of the design, as the case may
be, and to any other person who appears to him to be concerned, and
shall give any such person an opportunity of being heard before the
correction is made.
24. (1) The High Court may, on the application of any person
aggrieved, order the register to be rectified by the making of any entry
therein or the variation or deletion of any entry therein.
Rectification of
register
(2) The High Court may determine any question which it may be
necessary or expedient to decide in connection with the rectification of
the register.
(3) Repealed by Act No. 16 of 1980.
(4) A notice of any order made by the High Court under this section
shall be served on the Registrar in the prescribed manner, and the
Registrar shall, on receipt of the notice, rectify the register accordingly.
(As amended by Act No 16 of 1980)
25. (1) The Registrar may, upon a request made in the prescribed
Cancellation of