manner by the registered proprietor, cancel the registration of a design.
registration
(2) At any time after a design has been registered, any person interested
may apply to the Registrar for the cancellation of the registration of the
design on the ground that(a)
the design was not, at the date of the registration thereof, new or
original;
(b)
the design, at the time when it was registered, was a
corresponding design in relation to an artistic work in which copyright
subsisted under the written law relating to copyright;
(c)
by reason of a previous use of that artistic work, the design
would not have been registrable under this Act but for subsection (2) of
section twelve; or
(d)
the copyright in that work under the written law relating to
copyright has expired;
or on any other ground on which the Registrar could have refused to
register the design; and the Registrar may make such order on the
application as he thinks fit.
(3) An appeal shall lie from any order of the Registrar under subsection
(2).
(As amended by G.N. No. 187 of 1964)
PART VII
FUNCTIONS OF REGISTRAR IN RELATION
CERTAIN EVIDENCE, DOCUMENTS AND POWERS
TO
26. (1) A certificate purporting to be signed by the Registrar and
certifying that any entry which he is authorised by or under this Act to
make has or has not been made, or that any other thing which he is so
authorised to do has or has not been done, shall be prima facie evidence
of the matters so certified.
(2) A copy of any entry in the register or of any representation,
Evidence
of
certain entries
and documents