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Laws
Merchandise Marks Act
Part II
s 20

In force1984 Revised EditionCurrent version · 1984 Revised EditionSee versions on Attorney General's Chambers(opens the publisher’s site)

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Merchandise Marks Act

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6Using a false property mark 7. Punishment for using a false trade mark or property mark 8. Counterfeiting a trade mark or property mark use...
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23Merchandise Marks

27Rules as to evidence 28. Costs 29. Limitation 30. Search warrant 31. Punishment of abetment in Brunei of act done out of Brunei 32. Compoun...

36Liability of director and officers of a company 37. Penalty 38. Trial of offences - - Merchandise Marks MERCHANDISE MARKS ACT

1S.99159
2Short title
3Trade mark
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5Any person who marks any goods or any case, pack-age or other receptacle containing goods, or uses any case, package or other receptacle wi...
6Any person who marks any movable property or goods or any case, package or other r~ceptacle containing movable property or goods, or uses a...
7Any person who uses any false trade mark or any false property mark shall, unless he proves that he acted without intent to defraud, be gui...
8Any person who counterfeits any trade mark or prop-erty mark used by any other person shall be guilty of an offence: Penalty, imprisonment...
9Any person who-
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11Any person who makes or has in his possession any die, plate or other instrument for the purpose of counterfeit-ing a trade mark or propert...
12Any person who imports, sells, or exposes or has in possession for sale or any purpose of trade or manufacture, any goods or things with a...
13Any person who makes any false mark upon any case, package or other receptacle containing goods, in a manner reasonably calculated to cause...
14Any person who makes use of any such false mark in Punishment for making any manner prohibited by section 13 shall, unless he proves useofa...
15Any person who removes, destroys, defaces or adds to any property mark, intending or knowing it to be likely that he may thereby cause inju...
16Any person who causes or suffers to appear on any trade mark used by him for the purposes of his trade or business any representation of th...
17Any person who imports, sells or exposes or has in his possession for sale or any purpose of trade or manufacture any goods or things to wh...
18Trade Descriptions
20Any person who applies any false trade description to goods or causes any false description to be applied to goods shall, subject to this A...
21Any person who imports, except for transhipment or in course of transit to any place outside Brunei without breaking bulk, sells or exposes...
22Any person who imports, except for transhipment or in course of transit to any place outside Brunei without breaking bulk, sells or exposes...
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24Unintentional Contravention
25Forfeiture of Goods
26Procedure
27In the case of imported goods evidence of the port of shipment shall be prima facie evidence in any prosecution under this Act of the place...
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29No prosecution under this Act shall be commenced after the expiration of 3 years next after the commission of the offence, or of one year n...
30(1) Where upon information of an offence under this Act, a Court has issued either a sumptons requiring the defendant charged by such infor...
31Any person who, being within Brunei abets the com-mission without Brunei of any act which, if committed in Brunei, would under this Act be...
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33Miscellaneous
34Merchandise Marks
35Savings
36Where the person guilty of an offence under section 6
37Penalty
38Merchandise Marks

Merchandise Marks Act · 1984 Revised Edition · Part II

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