Register

(1) The Registrar shall maintain a register to be known as “the Register of Layout-Designs” in which he shall record all matters which must under this Act be recorded. (2) The Registrar shall contain the number, title, filing date and, where indicated in the application under section 8 (4)(d) of this Act, the date of the first commercial exploitation anywhere in the world, of the layout-design, the name and address of the right holder, and such other particulars as may be prescribed. (3) 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 (Topographies) of Integrated Circuits 13 (4) 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. (5) A certificate signed by the Registrar and certifying that any entry which he is authorised by this Act to make or has not 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. (6) 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 (3) of this section; and (b) any document kept in the Office, or an extract from any such document, or any matter which has been published under this Act, which is a certified copy or a certified extract shall be admitted in evidence without further proof and without production of the original, and such evidence shall be sufficient evidence of the matters stated therein. (7) In this section, “certified copy” and “certified extract” means a copy or extract certified by the Registrar and sealed with his seal.