Industrial Designs Act, 2001

Costs and security for costs.

81.—(1) The Controller may, in any proceedings before him or her under this Act, order the payment to any party of such costs (if any) as the Controller may consider reasonable and direct how and by what party they are to be paid, and any such order may, by leave of the High Court, be enforced in the same manner as a judgement or order of the High Court to the same effect.

(2) Where, under this Act, a party who neither resides nor carries on business in the State or in any other state which may be prescribed is a party to any proceedings before the Controller, the Controller or, in the case of any appeal, the High Court, may require that party to give security for the costs of the proceedings.

(3) Where a requirement under subsection (2) is not complied with, the Controller or, as the case may be, the High Court may treat the proceedings as abandoned.