Textile Designs (Registration) ACT, 1973 (NRCD 213)
Section 18: If any person -
(a) makes or causes to be made a false entry in the register of designs, or a writing falsely purporting to be a copy of an entry in the register,
(b) produces or tenders or causes to be produced or tendered in evidence as genuine any such writing knowing the entry or writing to be false, he shall be guilty of an offence punishable by a fine not exceeding 05,000.00 or five years imprisonment or both.
(2) If any person falsely represents that a design applied to any textile article sold by him is registered in respect of that textile article he shall be liable on summary conviction t a fine not exceeding 0200.00.
(3) For the purposes of subsection (2) of this section a person who sells a textile article having stamped, engraved or impressed thereon or otherwise applied thereto the word "registered" or any other word expressing or implying that the design applied to is registered, shall be deemed to represent that the design applied to the article is registered in respect of that article.
(4) If any person, after the copyright in a registered textile design has expired, marks the textile to which the design has been applied, with the word, "registered", or any word or words implying that there is a subsisting copyright in the design or causes any such article to be so marked, he shall be guilty of an offence and liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding C200.00.
(5) In the case of an offence by a body of persons -
(a) where the body of persons is a body corporate every director and officer of the body corporate shall be deemed to be guilty of the offence; and
(b) where the body corporate is a firm, every partner of the firm shall be deemed to be guilty of the offence:
Provided that a person shall not be deemed to be guilty of an offence by virtue of this subsection if he proves that the act constituting the offence was committed by a person other than himself and without his knowledge or connivance and that he exercised all due diligence to prevent the commission of the offence having regard to all the circumstances.
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