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Chapter 4
Register of Designs
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Register of designs.
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30.—(1) The Controller may register designs in accordance with this Act and shall maintain, in the prescribed form, a register of designs, in this Act referred to as the “Register”.
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(2) There shall be entered in the Register—
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(a) the names and addresses of proprietors of registered designs;
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(b) notices of assignments and transmissions of registered designs; and
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(c) such other matters relating to registered designs as may be prescribed by the Minister or as the Controller may think fit.
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(3) The Register shall be prima facie evidence of any matters required or authorised by or under this Act to be entered therein.
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(4) No notice of any trust, whether express, implied or constructive, shall be entered in the Register, and the Controller shall not be affected by any such notice.
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(5) A certificate purporting to be signed by the Controller and certifying that an entry which he or she is authorised by or under this Act to make in the Register has or has not been made, or that any other thing which he or she is so authorised to do has or has not been done, shall be prima facie evidence of the matters so certified.
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(6) Nothing in subsection (3) shall oblige the Controller to satisfy himself or herself of the matters referred to in that subsection when considering an application for registration under this Act.
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