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The Central Government wishes to assist applicants in southern India to register layout-designs conveniently. Which step is consistent with the Act?

The Central Government may establish a branch office of the Registry at any place it thinks fit to facilitate registration, and may by Official Gazette notification define the territorial limits within which that office exercises its functions. The Registrar or courts have no such power.

  1. AThe Registrar may himself create a branch office by order
  2. BOnly the High Court may establish branch offices
  3. CBranch offices may be set up only with the proprietors' consent
  4. DIt may establish a branch office of the Registry at a place it thinks fit and define by notification its territorial limitsCorrect

Explanation

Section 5(2) allows the Central Government to establish branch offices at places it thinks fit to facilitate registration, and section 5(3) lets it define by notification in the Official Gazette the territorial limits of an office's functions. The Registrar has no such power under the text.

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