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Part XI

180. False representations regarding industrial Designs

Official English translation. Where it differs from the Sinhala or Tamil text, the Act itself says which text prevails.

(1)

Any person who, for industrial or commercial purposes, makes a representation —

(a)

with respect to an Industrial Design not being a registered Industrial Design to the effect that it is a registered Industrial Design ;

(b)

to the effect that a registered Industrial Design is registered in respect of any product, regarding which registration has not been carried out ;

(c)

to the effect that the registration of an Industrial

Design gives an exclusive right to the use thereof in any circumstances in which, having regard to limitations recorded in the register, the registration does not give that right, shall be guilty of an offence, and shall on conviction after trial before a Magistrate be liable to a fine not exceeding five hundred thousand rupees or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding six months or to both such fine and such imprisonment.

(2)

A person shall be deemed to represent that an

Industrial Design is registered if he uses in connection with the Industrial Design the word “registered”, or any word or words expressing or implying that registration has been obtained for the Industrial Design.

Read on from s 181