Singapore legislation

Clause 2

of Geographical Indications (Amendment) Bill

Clause 2

Amendment of section 2

Section 2 of the Geographical Indications Act 2014 (called in this Act the principal Act) is amended —

(a)

by inserting, immediately after the definition of “use”, the following definition:“ “variant”, in relation to a geographical indication, means a variant of the indication constituting the geographical indication, and includes any translation, transliteration or other variation of the indication;”; and

(b)

by renumbering the section as subsection (1) of that section, and by inserting immediately thereafter the following subsections:“(2) There may be 2 or more variants constituting the same geographical indication.(3) A geographical indication, and each variant constituting the geographical indication (if any), may contain 2 or more words.”.