Singapore legislation
Clause 5
Clause 5
Amendment of section 46
Section 46 of the principal Act is amended —
by deleting the words “Any person may” in subsection (1) and substituting the words “Subject to subsection (3A), any person may”;
by deleting the words “under section 45” in subsection (1) and substituting the words “of a geographical indication under section 45 but before the registration of the geographical indication under section 48”;
by inserting, immediately after the words “request that a qualification, of” in subsection (1), the words “any of”; and
by inserting, immediately after subsection (3), the following subsection:“(3A) A request under subsection (1) may not be made if the request —
is for a qualification of all the rights conferred under this Act in respect of a registered geographical indication to be entered in the register —
in relation to any name contained in the geographical indication that is the subject of the application for registration; or
in relation to any term which may be a possible translation of the geographical indication that is the subject of the application for registration; and
is made on the ground that one or more of the exceptions mentioned in section 11(a), (b) or (c) or 15 applies to that name or term.”.