Singapore legislation

Clause 30

of Intellectual Property (Dispute Resolution) Bill

Clause 30

Amendment of section 68

Section 68 of the Registered Designs Act is amended —

(a)

by deleting subsection (1) and substituting the following subsection:“(1) The Registrar or any person authorised in writing by the Registrar may compound any offence under this Act that is prescribed as a compoundable offence by collecting from a person reasonably suspected of having committed the offence a sum not exceeding the lower of the following:

(a)

one half of the amount of the maximum fine that is prescribed for the offence;

(b)

$5,000.”; and

(b)

by deleting subsection (4) and substituting the following subsection:“(4) All sums collected under this section must be paid into the Consolidated Fund.”.

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