The Semiconductor Integrated Circuits Layout-Design Act, 2000

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    "title": "The Semiconductor Integrated Circuits Layout-Design Act, 2000",
    "short_title": "The Semiconductor Integrated Circuits Layout-Design Act, 2000",
    "act_number": "(37 OF 2000)",
    "act_year": 2000,
    "act_type": "CENTRAL",
    "location": "India (Central)",
    "law_status": "unknown",
    "enactment_date": "2026-09-04",
    "description": "The Semiconductor Integrated Circuits Layout-Design Act, 2000",
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            "number": "1",
            "title": "CHAPTER I",
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            "title": "2. Definitions",
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            "content": "(a) \"Appellate Board\" means the Appellate Board established under section 32;\n(b) \"assignment\" means an assignment in writing by act of the parties concerned;\n(c) \"Bench\" means a Bench of the Appellate Board;\n(d) \"Chairperson\" means the Chairperson of the Appellate Board;\n(e) \"commercial exploitation\", in relation to Semiconductor Integrated Circuits Layout-Design, means to sell, lease, offer or exhibit for sale or otherwise distribute such semiconductor integrated circuit for any commercial purpose;\n(f) \"convention country\" means a country notified as such under section 93;\n(g) \"Judicial Member\" means a Member of the Appellate Board appointed as such under this Act, and includes the Chairperson or such Vice-Chairperson who possesses any of the qualifications specified in sub-section (3) of section 34;\n(h) \"layout-design\" means a layout of transistors and other circuitry elements and includes lead wires connecting such elements and expressed in any manner in a semiconductor integrated circuit;\n(i) \"Member\" means a Judicial Member or a Technical Member of the Appellate Board and includes the Chairperson and the Vice-Chairperson;\n(j) \"notify\" means to notify in the Semiconductor Integrated Circuit Journal published by the Registrar;\n(k) \"prescribed\" means prescribed by rules made under this Act;\n(l) \"register\" means the Register of Layout-Designs referred to in section 6;\n(m) \"registered\" (with its grammatical variations) means registered under this Act;\n(n) \"registered layout-design\" means a layout-design which is actually on the register;\n(o) \"registered proprietor\", in relation to a layout-design, means the person for the time being entered in the register as proprietor of the layout-design;\n(p) \"registered user\" means a person who is for the time being registered as such under section 25;\n(q) \"Registrar\" means the Registrar of Semiconductor Integrated Circuits Layout-Design referred to in section 3;\n(r) \"semiconductor integrated circuit\" means a product having transistors and other circuitry elements which are inseparably formed on a semiconductor material or an insulating material or inside the semiconductor material and designed to perform an electronic circuitry function;\n(s) \"Technical Member\" means a Member of the Appellate Board who is not a Judicial Member and includes the Chairperson or such Vice-Chairperson who possesses any of the qualifications specified in sub-section (4) of section 34;\n(t) \"transmission\" means transmission by operation of law, devolution on the personal representation of a deceased person or any other mode of transfer not being assignment;\n(u) \"Vice-Chairperson\" means the Vice-Chairperson of the Appellate Board;\n(v) any reference to the Semiconductor Integrated Circuits Layout-Design Registry shall be construed as including a reference to any office of the Semiconductor Integrated Circuits Layout-Design Registry.",
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            "number": "4",
            "title": "CHAPTER II",
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            "content": "The Register And Conditions Of Registration",
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            "number": "3",
            "title": "3. Registrar of Semiconductor Integrated Circuits Layout-Design",
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            "number": "4",
            "title": "4. Power of Registrar to transfer pending matters",
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            "number": "5",
            "title": "5. Registry",
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            "number": "6",
            "title": "6. Register of Layout-Designs",
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            "number": "7",
            "title": "7. Prohibition of registration of certain layout-designs",
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            "content": "(a) which is not original; or\n(b) which has been commercially exploited anywhere in India or in a convention country; or\n(c) which is not inherently distinctive; or\n(d) which is not inherently capable of being distinguishable from any other registered layout-design, shall not be registered as a layout-design:",
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            "number": "10",
            "title": "CHAPTER III",
            "chapter": "CHAPTER III",
            "content": "Procedure For And Duration Of Registration",
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            "number": "8",
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            "number": "9",
            "title": "9. Withdrawal of acceptance",
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            "number": "10",
            "title": "10. Advertisement of application",
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            "content": "(a) an error in the application has been corrected; or\n(b) the application has been permitted to be amended under section 12, the Registrar may in his discretion cause the application to be advertised again or, in any case falling under clause (b), may, instead of causing the application to be advertised again, notify in the prescribed manner the correction or amendment made in the application.",
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            "number": "11",
            "title": "11. Opposition to registration",
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            "number": "12",
            "title": "12. Correction and amendment",
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            "content": "(a) at any time, whether before or after acceptance of an application for registration under section 8, permit the correction of any error in or in connection with the application or permit an amendment of the application; or\n(b) permit correction of any error in, or an amendment of, a notice of opposition or a counter-statement under section 11.",
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            "number": "13",
            "title": "13. Registration",
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            "content": "(a) the application has not been opposed and time for notice of opposition has expired; or\n(b) the application has been opposed and the opposition has been decided in favour of the applicant, the Registrar shall register the said layout-design in the register and the layout-design shall be registered as of the date of the making of the said application and that date shall be deemed to be the date of registration.",
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            "number": "14",
            "title": "14. Jointly owned layout-design",
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            "content": "(a) both of them or all of them have put the combined intellectual effort in creating such design; or\n(b) in relation to the creation of such layout-design both of them or all of them are connected in such manner that intellectual effort of each of them are not distinguishable in creation of such layout-design, those persons may be registered as joint proprietor of the layout-design and this Act shall have effect in relation to any right to the use of the layout-design vested in those persons as if in those rights vested in a single person.",
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            "number": "15",
            "title": "15. Duration of registration",
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            "number": "19",
            "title": "CHAPTER IV",
            "chapter": "CHAPTER IV",
            "content": "Effect Of Registration",
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        {
            "number": "16",
            "title": "16. No action of infringement of unregistered layout-design",
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            "is_definition": false,
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        {
            "number": "17",
            "title": "17. Rights conferred by registration",
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            "number": "18",
            "title": "18. Infringement of layout-design",
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            "content": "(a) does any act of reproducing, whether by incorporating in a semiconductor integrated circuit or otherwise, a registered layout-design in its entirety or any part thereof, except such act of reproducing any part thereof which is not original within the meaning of sub-section (2) of section 7;\n(b) subject to the provisions of sub-section (5), does any act of importing or selling or otherwise distributing for commercial purposes a registered layout-design or a semiconductor integrated circuit incorporating such registered layout-design or an article incorporating such a semiconductor integrated circuit containing such registered layout-design for the use of which such person is not entitled under this Act.",
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            "number": "19",
            "title": "19. Registration to be prima facie evidence of validity",
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        {
            "number": "24",
            "title": "CHAPTER V",
            "chapter": "CHAPTER V",
            "content": "Assignment And Transmission",
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            "number": "20",
            "title": "20. Power of registered proprietor to assign and give receipts",
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            "number": "21",
            "title": "21. Assignability and transmissibility of registered layout-design",
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            "number": "22",
            "title": "22. Conditions for assignment otherwise than in connection with the goodwill of a business",
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            "number": "23",
            "title": "23. Registration of assignments and transmissions",
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        {
            "number": "29",
            "title": "CHAPTER VI",
            "chapter": "CHAPTER VI",
            "content": "Use Of Layout-Design And Registered Users",
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            "number": "24",
            "title": "24. Registered users",
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            "number": "25",
            "title": "25. Registration as registered user",
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            "content": "(a) the agreement in writing or a duly authenticated copy thereof, entered into between the registered proprietor and the proposed registered user with respect to the permitted use of the layout-design; and\n(b) an affidavit made by the registered proprietor or by some person authorised to the satisfaction of Registrar to act on his behalf-\n(i) giving particulars of the relationship, existing or proposed, between the registered proprietor and the proposed registered user, including particulars showing the degree of control by the proprietor over the permitted use which the relationship will confer and whether it is a term of their relationship that the proposed registered user shall be the sole registered user or that there shall be any other restriction as to persons for whose registration as registered user application may be made;\n(ii) stating the conditions or restrictions, if any, proposed with respect to the place of permitted use or any other matter;\n(iii) stating whether the permitted use to be for a period or without limit of period, and, if for a period, the duration thereof; and\n(c) such further documents or other evidence as may be required by the Registrar or as may be prescribed.",
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            "number": "26",
            "title": "26. Power of Registrar for cancellation of registration as registered user",
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            "content": "(a) may be cancelled by the Registrar on application in writing in the prescribed manner of the registered proprietor or of the registered user or of any other registered user of the layout-design;\n(b) may be cancelled by the Registrar on the application in writing in the prescribed manner of any person on any of the following grounds, namely:-\n(i) that the registered user has used the layout-design otherwise than in accordance with the agreement under clause (a) of sub-section (1) of section 25;\n(ii) that the proprietor or the registered user misrepresented, or failed to disclose, some fact material to the application for registration which if accurately represented or disclosed would not have justified the registration of the registered user;\n(iii) that the circumstances have changed since the date of registration in such a way that at the date of such application for cancellation they would not have justified registration of the registered user;\n(iv) that the registration ought not to have been effected having regard to right vested in the applicant by virtue of a contract in the performance of which he is interested;\n(c) may be cancelled by the Registrar on his own motion or on the application in writing in the prescribed manner by any person on the ground that any stipulation in the agreement between the registered proprietor and the registered user regarding the topographical dimensions of the layout-design is either not being enforced or is not being complied with;\n(d) may be cancelled by the Registrar if the layout-design is no longer registered.",
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            "number": "27",
            "title": "27. Power of Registrar to call for information relating to agreement in respect of registered users",
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        {
            "number": "28",
            "title": "28. Right of registered user to take proceedings against infringement",
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        {
            "number": "29",
            "title": "29. Registered user not to have right of assignment or transmission",
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            "content": "(a) where the registered user being an individual enters into a partnership with any other person for carrying on the business concerned; but in any such case the firm may use the layout-design, if otherwise in force, only for so long as the registered user is a member of the firm;\n(b) where the registered user being a firm subsequently undergoes a change in its constitution; but in any such case the reconstituted firm may use the layout-design, if otherwise in force, only for so long as any partner of the original firm at the time of its registration as registered user, continues to be a partner of the reconstituted firm.",
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        {
            "number": "36",
            "title": "CHAPTER VII",
            "chapter": "CHAPTER VII",
            "content": "Rectification And Correction Of The Register",
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        {
            "number": "30",
            "title": "30. Power to rectify the register",
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        {
            "number": "31",
            "title": "31. Correction of register",
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            "content": "(a) correct any error in the name, address or description of the registered proprietor of a layout-design, or any other entry relating to the layout-design;\n(b) enter any change in the name, address or description of the person who is registered as proprietor of a layout-design;\n(c) cancel the entry of a layout-design on the register, and may make any consequential amendment or alteration in the certificate of registration, and for that purpose, may require the certificate of registration to be produced to him.",
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        {
            "number": "39",
            "title": "CHAPTER VIII",
            "chapter": "CHAPTER VIII",
            "content": "Appellate Board",
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        {
            "number": "32",
            "title": "32. Establishment of Layout-Design Appellate Board",
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        },
        {
            "number": "33",
            "title": "33. Composition of Appellate Board",
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            "content": "(a) may, in addition to discharging the functions of the Judicial Member or Technical Member of the Bench to which he is appointed, discharge the function of the Judicial Member or, as the case may be, the Technical Member, of any other Bench;\n(b) may transfer a Member from one Bench to another Bench;\n(c) may authorise Vice-Chairperson, the Judicial Member or the Technical Member appointed to one Bench to discharge also the functions of the Judicial Member or the Technical Member, as the case may be, of another Bench.",
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            "number": "34",
            "title": "34. Qualifications for appointment as Chairperson, Vice-Chairperson, or other Members",
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            "content": "(a) is, or has been, a Judge of a High Court; or\n(b) has, for at least two years, held the office of a Vice-Chairperson;:\n(a) has, for at least two years, held the office of a Judicial Member or a Technical Member; or\n(b) has been a member of the Indian Legal Service and has held a post in Grade I of that Service or any higher post for at least five years.\n(a) has been a member of the Indian Legal Service and has held the post in Grade I of that Service for at least three years; or\n(b) has, for at least ten years, held a civil judicial office.",
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            "number": "35",
            "title": "35. Term of office of Chairperson, Vice-Chairperson and Members",
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            "content": "(a) in the case of Chairperson and Vice-Chairperson, the age of sixty-five years; and\n(b) in the case of Member, the age of sixty-two years, whichever is earlier.",
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        {
            "number": "36",
            "title": "36. Vice-Chairperson or senior-most Member to act as Chairperson or discharge his function in certain circumstances",
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        },
        {
            "number": "37",
            "title": "37. Salaries, allowances and other terms and conditions of service of Chairperson, Vice-Chairperson and other Members",
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        {
            "number": "38",
            "title": "38. Resignation and removal",
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        },
        {
            "number": "39",
            "title": "39. Staff of Appellate Board",
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            "is_definition": false,
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        },
        {
            "number": "40",
            "title": "40. Application to the Appellate Board to determine royalty",
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            "is_definition": false,
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        {
            "number": "41",
            "title": "41. Power of the Board to cancel registration",
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            "content": "(a) in the case of the registration of a layout-design, the layout-design is prohibited for being registered under section 7; or\n(b) in the case of the registration of assignment or transmission relating to a registered layout-design, such assignment or transmission is contrary to any provision of the law for the time being in force.",
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        {
            "number": "42",
            "title": "42. Appeal to Appellate Board",
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        {
            "number": "43",
            "title": "43. Procedure and powers of Appellate Board",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) receiving evidence;\n(b) issuing commissions for examination of witnesses;\n(c) requisitioning any public record; and\n(d) any other matter which may be prescribed.",
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            "number": "44",
            "title": "44. Bar of jurisdiction of Courts, etc",
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        {
            "number": "45",
            "title": "45. Bar to appear before Appellate Board",
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        {
            "number": "46",
            "title": "46. Conditions as to making of interim order",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) copies of such appeal and of all documents in support of the plea for such interim order are furnished to the party against whom such appeal is made or proposed to be made; and\n(b) opportunity is given to such party to be heard in the matter.",
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            "number": "47",
            "title": "47. Power of Chairperson to transfer cases from one Bench to another",
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        },
        {
            "number": "48",
            "title": "48. Procedure for application for rectification, etc., before Appellate Board",
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            "is_definition": false,
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        },
        {
            "number": "49",
            "title": "49. Appearance of Registrar in legal proceedings",
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            "content": "(a) in any legal proceedings before the Appellate Board in which the relief sought includes alteration or rectification of the register or in which any question relating to the practice of the Semiconductor Integrated Circuit Layout-Design Registry is raised;\n(b) in any appeal to the Board from an order of the Registrar on an application for registration of a layout-design-\n(i) which is not opposed, and the application is either refused by the Registrar or is accepted by him subject to any amendments or modifications, or\n(ii) which has been opposed and the Registrar considers that his appearance is necessary in the public interest, and the Registrar shall appear in any case if so directed by the Board.",
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            "number": "50",
            "title": "50. Registrar to refer certain disputes to the Board",
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        {
            "number": "51",
            "title": "51. Power of the Board to permit certain uses",
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            "content": "(a) that the use of the layout-design shall be for non-commercial public purposes or for the purposes relating to national emergency or of extreme public urgency;\n(b) that the duration of the use of the layout-design shall be limited for a period specified by the Board;\n(c) that the use of the layout-design shall be non-assignable and non-transmissible;\n(d) that the use of the layout-design shall be to the extent which the Board deems necessary to remedy the anti-competitive practice;\n(e) that the use of the layout-design shall be predominantly for the supply of semiconductor integrated circuits or articles incorporating semiconductor integrated circuits in domestic market of India:",
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        {
            "number": "52",
            "title": "52. Costs of Registrar in proceedings before Appellate Board",
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        {
            "number": "53",
            "title": "53. Appeal",
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        {
            "number": "54",
            "title": "54. Powers of High Courts to make rules",
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        {
            "number": "55",
            "title": "55. Transitional provisions",
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        {
            "number": "64",
            "title": "CHAPTER IX",
            "chapter": "CHAPTER IX",
            "content": "Offences, Penalties And Procedure",
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        {
            "number": "56",
            "title": "56. Penalty for infringement of layout-design",
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        {
            "number": "57",
            "title": "57. Penalty for falsely representing a layout-design as registered",
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            "content": "(a) where that word or other expression is used in direct association with other words delineated in characters at least as large as those in which that word or other expression is delineated and indicating that the reference is to registration as a layout-design under the law of a country outside India being a country under the law of which the registration referred to is in fact in force; or\n(b) where that other expression is of itself such as to indicate that the reference is to such registration as is mentioned in clause (a); or\n(c) where that word is used in relation to a layout-design registered as a layout-design under the law of a country outside India and in relation solely to such layout-design.",
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            "number": "58",
            "title": "58. Penalty for improperly describing a place of business as connected with the Semiconductor Integrated Circuits Layout-Design Registry",
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            "number": "59",
            "title": "59. Penalty for falsification of entries in the register",
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            "number": "60",
            "title": "60. Forfeiture of goods",
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        {
            "number": "61",
            "title": "61. Exemption of certain persons employed in ordinary course of business",
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            "content": "(a) that in the case which is the subject of the charge he was so employed that it relates to the duty of his employment, and was not interested in the profit accruing from such commission of offence except the duty of his employment; and\n(b) that, having taken all reasonable precautions against committing the offence charged, he had, at the time of commission of the alleged offence, no reason to suspect the genuineness of the registered layout-design or a semiconductor integrated circuit in which such layout-design is incorporated; and\n(c) that, on demand made by or on behalf of the prosecutor, he gave all the information in his power with respect to the commission of such offence, he shall be acquitted.",
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            "number": "62",
            "title": "62. Procedure where invalidity of registration is pleaded by the accused",
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            "content": "(a) if the Court is satisfied that such defence is prima facie tenable, it shall not proceed with the charge but shall adjourn the proceeding for three months from the date on which the plea of accused is recorded to enable the accused to file an application before the Appellate Board under this Act, for the rectification of the register on the ground that the registration is invalid;\n(b) if the accused proves to the Court that he has made such application within the time so limited or within such further time as the time Court may for sufficient cause may allow, the further proceedings in the prosecution shall stand stayed till the disposal of such application for rectification;\n(c) if within a period of three months or within such extended time as may be allowed by the Court the accused fails to apply to the Appellate Board for rectification of the register, the Court shall proceed with the case as if the registration were valid.",
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            "is_definition": false,
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            "number": "63",
            "title": "63. Offences by companies",
            "chapter": null,
            "content": "(a) \"company\" means any body corporate and includes a firm or other association or individuals; and\n(b) \"director\", in relation to a firm, means a partner in the firm.",
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            "is_definition": false,
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            "number": "64",
            "title": "64. Cognizance of certain offences",
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            "content": "(a) of an offence under section 56 or section 57 except on the complaint in writing made by the registered proprietor or the registered user of a layout-design in respect of which the offence has been committed;\n(b) of an offence under section 58 or section 59 except on complaint in writing made by the Registrar or any officer authorised by him in writing.",
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            "is_definition": false,
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            "number": "65",
            "title": "65. Costs of defence or prosecution",
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            "number": "66",
            "title": "66. Information as to commission of offence",
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            "number": "67",
            "title": "67. Punishment of abetment in India of acts done out of India",
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            "content": "",
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            "is_definition": false,
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            "number": "77",
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            "is_definition": false,
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            "number": "68",
            "title": "68. Protection of security of India",
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            "content": "(a) not disclose any information relating to the registration of a layout-design or any application relating to the registration of a layout-design under this Act which the Central Government considers prejudicial to the interest of the security of India; and\n(b) take any action, including the cancellation of registration of a layout-design registered under this Act, which the Central Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, specify in the interest of security of India.\n(a) relates to fissionable materials or the materials from which they are derived; or\n(b) relates to the traffic in arms, ammunition and implements of war and to such traffic in other goods and materials as is carried on directly or indirectly for the purpose of supplying a military establishment; or\n(c) is taken in time of war or other emergency in international relations.",
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            "is_definition": false,
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            "number": "69",
            "title": "69. Protection of action taken in good faith",
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            "is_definition": false,
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        {
            "number": "70",
            "title": "70. Certain persons to be public servants",
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            "is_definition": false,
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            "number": "71",
            "title": "71. Implied warranty on sale of layout-design, etc",
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            "content": "",
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            "is_definition": false,
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        {
            "number": "72",
            "title": "72. Powers of Registrar",
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            "content": "(a) the Registrar shall have all the powers of a Civil Court for the purposes of receiving evidence, administering oaths, enforcing the attendance of witnesses, compelling the discovery and production of documents and issuing commissions for the examination of witnesses;\n(b) the Registrar may, subject to any rules in this behalf, made under section 96 make such orders as to costs as he considers reasonable, and any such order shall be executable as decree of a Civil Court;\n(c) the Registrar may, on an application made in the prescribed manner, review his own decision.",
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            "number": "73",
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            "number": "74",
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            "number": "75",
            "title": "75. Death of party to a proceeding",
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        {
            "number": "76",
            "title": "76. Extension of time",
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        {
            "number": "77",
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            "is_definition": false,
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        {
            "number": "78",
            "title": "78. Preliminary advice by the Registrar",
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            "content": "",
            "footnote": "",
            "is_definition": false,
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        {
            "number": "79",
            "title": "79. Registered user to be impleaded in certain proceedings",
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            "content": "",
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        {
            "number": "80",
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            "content": "",
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            "number": "81",
            "title": "81. Registrar and other officers not compellable to produce register, etc",
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            "content": "",
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        {
            "number": "82",
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            "is_definition": false,
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        {
            "number": "83",
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            "number": "84",
            "title": "84. Agents",
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            "content": "(a) a legal practitioner, or\n(b) a person registered in the prescribed manner as a layout-design agent, or\n(c) a person in the sole and regular employment of the principal.",
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            "is_definition": false,
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            "number": "85",
            "title": "85. Layout-design registered by an agent or representative without authority",
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            "number": "86",
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            "is_definition": false,
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            "number": "87",
            "title": "87. Documents open to public inspection",
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            "content": "(a) the register and any document upon which any entry in the register is based;\n(b) every notice of opposition to the registration of a layout-design application for rectification before the Registrar, counter-statement thereto, and any affidavit or document filed by the parties in any proceedings before the Registrar; and\n(c) the indexes mentioned in section 86 and such other documents as the Central Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, specify;",
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            "number": "88",
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            "number": "89",
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        {
            "number": "90",
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            "number": "91",
            "title": "91. Declaration as to ownership of layout-design not registrable under the Registration Act, 1908",
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            "number": "92",
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            "number": "93",
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            "number": "94",
            "title": "94. Provision as to reciprocity",
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            "content": "(a) to apply for the registration of, or be registered as the proprietor of, a layout-design;\n(b) to be registered as the assignee of the proprietor of a registered layout-design; or\n(c) to apply for registration or be registered as a registered user of a layout-design under section 25.",
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        {
            "number": "95",
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            "number": "96",
            "title": "96. Power to make rules",
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    "metadata": {
        "Act ID": "22/985",
        "Act Number": "(37 OF 2000)",
        "Enactment Date": "4th September, 2000",
        "Act Year": "2000",
        "Short Title": "The Semiconductor Integrated Circuits Layout-Design Act, 2000",
        "Type": "CENTRAL",
        "Location": "India (Central)"
    },
    "updated_at": "2026-09-29 21:51:58"
}