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Register
Cap. 254, s. 18 · Revised Edition 2020
(1) The Registrar shall maintain a Register in which he shall record all matters required by this Act or the Regulations to be recorded.
(2) Any person may, upon payment of the prescribed fee,
and in accordance with any prescribed conditions, consult,
inspect or make a copy of, or obtain an extract from, the
(3) The Register shall be prima facie evidence of anything required or authorised by this Act to be registered, and shall be admissible and sufficient evidence of any such thing.
(4) A certificate purporting to be signed by the Registrar and certifying that any entry which he is authorized to make by this Act 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, and shall be admissible and sufficient evidence,
of the matters so certified.
(5) Each of the following, that is to say a copy of,
(a) an entry in the Register or an extract from the Register which is supplied under subsection
(2) of this section; and 15
(b) any document kept in the Intellectual Property Office, or an extract from any such document,
or any matter which has been published under this Act,
which purports to be a certified copy or a certified extract, shall be admitted in evidence without production of the original, and such evidence shall be sufficient evidence of the matters stated therein.
(6) In this section, “certified copy” and “certified extract” mean a copy and extract certified by the Registrar and sealed with his seal.
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