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Section 78: Preliminary advice by the Registrar.

The Semiconductor Integrated Circuits Layout-Design Act, 2000Central Act · Act 37 of 2000

(1) The Registrar may, on application made to him in the prescribed manner by any person who proposes to apply for the registration of a layout-design, give advice as to whether the layout-design appears to him prima facie to be original.

(2) If, on an application for the registration of a layout-design as to which the Registrar has given advice as aforesaid in the affirmative made within three months after the advice was given, the Registrar, after further investigation or consideration, gives notice, to the applicant of objection on the ground that the layout-design is not original, the applicant shall be entitled, on giving notice of withdrawal of the application within the prescribed period, to have repaid to him any fee paid on the filing of the application.

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ActThe Semiconductor Integrated Circuits Layout-Design Act, 2000
Section78
Marginal notePreliminary advice by the Registrar.
JurisdictionCentral
StatusIn force as published by the source

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