1 - Short title, extent and commencement.
2 - Definitions and interpretation.
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3 - Registrar of Geographical Indications.
4 - Power of Registrar to withdraw or transfer cases, etc.
5 - Geographical Indications Registry and offices thereof.
6 - Register of Geographical Indications.
7 - Part A and Part B of the register.
8 - Registration to be in respect of particular goods and area.
9 - Prohibition of registration of certain geographical indications.
10 - Registration of homonymous geographical indications.
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11 - Application for registration.
12 - Withdrawal of acceptance.
13 - Advertisement of application.
14 - Opposition to registration.
15 - Correction and amendment.
16 - Registration.
17 - Application for registration as authorised user.
18 - Duration, renewal, removal and restoration of registration.
19 - Effect of removal from register for failure to pay fee for renewal.
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20 - No action for infringement of unregistered geographical indication.
21 - Rights conferred by registration.
22 - Infringement or registered geographical indications.
23 - Registration to be prima facie evidence of validity.
24 - Prohibition of assignment or transmission, etc.
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25 - Prohibition of registration of geographical indication as trade mark
26 - Protection to certain trade marks.
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27 - Power to cancel or vary registration and to rectify the register.
28 - Correction of register.
29 - Alteration of registered geographical indications.
30 - Adaptation of entries in register to amend or substitute classification of goods.
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31 - Appeals to the High Court.
32 - Bar of jurisdiction of courts, etc.
33 - Procedure of the Appellate Board.
34 - Procedure for application for rectification, etc., before High Court.
35 - Appearance of Registrar in legal proceedings.
36 - Costs of Registrar in proceedings before Appellate Board.
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37 - Meaning of applying geographical indications.
38 - Falsifying and falsely applying geographical indications.
39 - Penalty for applying false geographical indications.
40 - Penalty for selling goods to which false geographical indication is applied.
41 - Enhanced penalty on second or subsequent conviction.
42 - Penalty for falsely representing a geographical indication as registered.
43 - Penalty for improperly describing a place of business as connected with the Geographical Indications Registry.
44 - Penalty for falsification of entries in the register.
45 - No offence in certain cases.
46 - Forfeiture of goods.
47 - Exemption of certain persons employed in ordinary course of business.
48 - Procedure where invalidity of registration is pleaded by the accused.
49 - Offences by companies.
50 - Cognizance of certain offences and the powers of police officer for search and seizure.
51 - Costs of defence of prosecution.
52 - Limitation of prosecution.
53 - Information as to commission of offence.
54 - Punishment for abatement in India of acts done out of India
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55 - Protection of action taken in good faith.
56 - Certain persons to be public servants.
57 - Stay of proceedings where the validity of registration of the geographical indication is questioned etc.
58 - Application for rectification of register to be made to High Court in certain cases.
59 - Implied warranty on sale of indicated goods.
60 - Powers of Registrar.
61 - Exercise of discretionary power by Registrar.
62 - Evidence before Registrar.
63 - Death of party to a proceeding.
64 - Extension of time.
65 - Abandonment.
66 - Suit for infringement, etc., to be instituted before district court.
67 - Suit for infringement, etc., to be instituted before district court.
68 - Authorised user to be impleaded in certain proceedings.
69 - Evidence of entries in register, etc., and things done by the Registrar
70 - Registrar and other officers not compellable to produce register, etc.
71 - Power to require goods to show indication of origin.
72 - Certificate of validity.
73 - Groundless threats of legal proceedings.
74 - Address for service.
75 - Trade usages, etc., to be taken into consideration.
76 - Agents.
77 - Indexes.
78 - Documents open to public inspection.
79 - Reports of Registrar to be placed before Parliament.
80 - Fees and surcharge
81 - Savings in respect of certain matters in Chapter VIII.
82 - Declaration as to title of geographical indication not registrable under the Registration Act, 1908.
83 - Government to be bound.
84 - Special provisions relating to applications for registration from citizens of convention countries.
85 - Provision as to reciprocity.
86 - Powers of Central Government to remove difficulties.
87 - Power to make rules.
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