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Patents Act · 2023 Revised Edition · Part · Offences
Patents Act · 2023 Revised Edition · Part · Offences
Official textFrom Attorney General's Chambers, unchanged
If a person makes or causes to be made a false entry in any register kept under this Act, or a writing falsely purporting to be a copy or reproduction of an entry in any such register, or produces or tenders or causes to be produced or tendered in evidence any such writing, knowing the entry or writing to be false, he is guilty of an offence and liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding $5,000, imprisonment for a term not exceeding 12 months or both.
register
“register”, when used as a noun, means the register of patents maintained under section 43 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 his name in the register;