Singapore legislation
Regulation 40
Regulation 40
Request for qualification of rights to be entered in register
Subregulation 1
A person (called in this Part the requestor) desiring to request for a qualification of any of the rights conferred under the Act (called in this Part a qualification of rights) to be entered in the register under section 46(1) of the Act, may make the request to the Registrar in Form GI2.
Subregulation 2
The requestor must provide to the Registrar such evidence in respect of the request as the Registrar may require.
Subregulation 3
Except where the request is made by an applicant for the registration of the geographical indication, the requestor must serve on the applicant —
a copy of the request in Form GI2; and
where evidence is required by the Registrar under paragraph (2), such evidence,at the same time those documents are filed with the Registrar.
Subregulation 4
Where the Registrar proposes to allow the request, the Registrar must publish the proposed qualification of rights in the Geographical Indications Journal.
Subregulation 5
Where no notice of opposition has been filed within the period mentioned in rule 41(1), and the Registrar is satisfied that either or both of the grounds in section 46(2) of the Act is or are made out and that the request does not fall within section 46(4) of the Act, the Registrar must (subject to section 46(7) of the Act) enter the qualification of rights in the register.