Patents Act 1994 · 2020 Revised Edition · Part 8 · Property in Patents and Applications for Patents and Registration
45. Evidence of register, documents, etc.
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The register is prima facie evidence of anything required or authorised by this Act or the rules to be registered.
register
“register”, when used as a noun, means the register of patents maintained under section 42 and, when used as a verb, means, in relation to any thing, to register or register particulars, or enter notice, of that thing in the register and, when used in relation to a person, means to enter the person’s name in the register;
A certificate purporting to be signed by the Registrar and certifying that any entry which the Registrar is authorised by this Act or any of its rules to make has or has not been made, or that any other thing which the Registrar is so authorised to do has or has not been done, is prima facie evidence of the matter so certified.
Registrar
“Registrar” means the Registrar of Patents and includes any Deputy Registrar of Patents holding office under this Act;
Each of the following, that is to say —
a copy of an entry in the register or an extract from the register which is supplied under section 42(7);
a copy of any document kept in the Registry or an extract from any such document; or
any specification of a patent or any application for a patent which has been published,which purports to be a certified copy or a certified extract is to be admitted in evidence without further proof and without production of the original.
In this section, “certified copy” and “certified extract” mean a copy and an extract certified by the Registrar.