Industrial and Commercial Property (Protection) Act, 1927

Offences.

150.—(1) If any 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 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 shall be guilty of a misdemeanour.

(2) If any person falsely represents that any article sold by him is a patented article, or falsely describes any design applied to any article sold by him as registered, or falsely represents a trade mark as registered, he shall be guilty of an offence under this sub-section and shall be liable on summary conviction thereof to a fine not exceeding five pounds.

(3) If any person sells an article having stamped, engraved, or impressed thereon or otherwise applied thereto the word “patent,” “patented,” “registered,” or any other word expressing or implying that the article is patented or that the design applied thereto or the trade mark thereon is registered, he shall be deemed for the purposes of this section to represent that the article is a patented article or that the design applied thereto is a registered design or that the trade mark thereon is a registered trade mark.

(4) Any person who, after the copyright in a design has expired, puts or causes to be put on any article to which the design has been applied the word “registered,” or any word or words implying that there is a subsisting copyright in the design, shall be guilty of an offence under this sub-section and shall be liable on summary conviction thereof to a fine not exceeding five pounds.

(5) If any person uses on his place of business, or on any document issued by him, or otherwise, any words suggesting that his place of business is officially connected with, or is, the Office, he shall be guilty of an offence under this sub-section and shall be liable on summary conviction thereof to a fine not exceeding twenty pounds.