Registrar, Deputy Registrars and Assistant Registrars
(1) The Director General of the Corporation shall be the Registrar of Industrial Designs.
(2) The Corporation may appoint, on such terms and conditions as it may determine, from amongst persons in the employment of the Corporation, such number of Deputy Registrars of Industrial Designs, Assistant Registrars of Industrial Designs and other officers as may be necessary for the proper administration of this Act, and may revoke the appointment of any person so appointed or deemed to have been so appointed under subsection (3).
(3) The persons holding office as Deputy Registrars, Assistant Registrars and other officers under this Act before the appointed date who were given an option by the Government of Malaysia to serve as employees of the Corporation and have so opted shall on the appointed date be deemed to have been appointed as Deputy Registrars, Assistant Registrars and such other officers under subsection (2).
(4) Subject to the general direction and control of the Registrar and to such conditions or restrictions as may be imposed by the Registrar, a Deputy Registrar or an Assistant Registrar may exercise any function of the Registrar under this Act, and anything by this Act appointed or authorized or required to be done or signed by the Registrar may be done or signed by any Deputy Registrar or Assistant Registrar and the act or signature of a Deputy Registrar or an Assistant Registrar shall be as valid and effectual as if done or signed by the Registrar.
(5) The Registrar shall have a seal of such device as may be approved by the Corporation and the impressions of such seal shall be judicially noticed and admitted in evidence.
Industrial Designs Registration Office
(1) An Industrial Designs Registration Office and such number of branch offices of the Industrial Designs Registration Office as may be necessary for the purposes of this Act shall be established.
(2) (Deleted by Act A1140).
(3) (Deleted by Act A1140).
(4) Any application or other document required or permitted to be filed at the Industrial Designs Registration Office may be filed at any branch office of the Industrial Designs Registration Office and such application or other document shall be deemed to have been filed at the Industrial Designs Registration Office.
Register of Industrial Designs
(1) The Registrar shall keep and maintain a register called the Register of Industrial Designs.
(2) There shall be entered in the Register—
(a) the names and addresses of owners of registered industrial designs;
(b) notices of assignment and of transmissions of registered industrial designs; and
(c) such other matters as may from time to time be prescribed or as the Registrar may think fit.
(3) The Register shall be kept in such form and on such material as may be prescribed.
Notice of trust
Notice of a trust whether express, implied or constructive shall not be entered in the Register or be accepted by the Registrar.
Inspection of Register
(1) The Register shall be open to the inspection of the public at such times and in accordance with such conditions as may be prescribed.
(2) A certified true copy or extract of any entry in the Register sealed with the seal of the Registrar shall be given to any person requiring the same on payment of the prescribed fee.
Certified copies to be evidence
(1) The Register shall constitute prima facie evidence of all matters required or authorized by this Act to be entered therein.
(2) The Registrar may supply a copy of or an extract from—
(a) any entry or document in the Register; or
(b) a document or publication in the Industrial Designs Registration Office, certified by writing under his hand and seal to be a true copy or extract.
(3) A copy or extract so certified and sealed shall be admissible in evidence as of equal validity with the original in all courts and proceedings without further proof or production of the original.
(4) The Registrar may certify, by writing under his hand and seal—
(a) that an entry, matter or thing required by or under this Act to be made or done, or not to be made or done, has, or has not, as the case may be, been made or done; or
(b) that a book, document or publication in the Industrial Designs Registration Office was made available for public inspection on the date specified in the certificate,
and such a certificate shall be received as prima facie evidence of the matters specified in the certificate in any legal proceedings.
Source: Laws of Malaysia, Attorney General's Chambers of Malaysia (lom.agc.gov.my). Not a copy of the Gazette printed by the Government Printer (Interpretation Acts 1948 and 1967, s 61).
