Registered Designs Act 2000 · 2020 Revised Edition · Part 5 · Administrative and Other Supplementary Provisions
57. Correction of Register
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The Registrar may, in accordance with the provisions of this section and the rules mentioned in section 74(2A), correct any clerical error in the Register.
Registrar
“Registrar” means the Registrar of Designs referred to in section 49 and includes any Deputy Registrar of Designs referred to in that section;
A correction may be made under this section either upon a request in writing made by any person interested, or on the Registrar’s own initiative.
A request referred to in subsection (2) must be made in the prescribed form and be accompanied by the prescribed fee.
The Registrar is not obliged to correct on his or her own initiative any error not due to the default of the Registrar.
Where the Registrar proposes to make any correction on his or her own initiative, the Registrar must give notice of the proposal to every person who appears to the Registrar to be likely to be affected by the correction, and must give the person an opportunity to be heard before making the correction.