Section 9: Registration
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9. Registration
(1) The Controller shall maintain a register in which he shall record all
matters required to be recorded by this Act.
(2) Where an application complies with the requirements of section 8,
the Controller shall register the layout-design in the Register without examination of the originality of the layout-design, the applicant’s entitlement to
protection, or the correctness of the facts stated in the application.
(3) The Register shall contain the number, title, filing date and, where
appropriate, the date of the first commercial exploitation of the layout-design
anywhere in the world as well as the name and address of the right holder
and other prescribed particulars.
(4) Any interested person may consult the Register and obtain extracts
therefrom, subject to the payment of the prescribed fee.
(5) The registration of a layout-design shall be published in the Government Gazette.