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The Geographical Indications Registry plans to maintain its register wholly in electronic form. Under the Geographical Indications of Goods (Registration and Protection) Act, 1999, what is the effect of such electronic maintenance on references to entries in the register?

Where the register is kept wholly or partly in electronic form, any reference in the Act to an entry in the register is read as a reference to the entry as maintained electronically. The Registrar may do this subject to the prescribed safeguards.

  1. AOnly the paper copy at the head office is treated as the entry
  2. BAny reference in the Act to an entry is construed as the entry as maintained in electronic formCorrect
  3. CElectronic entries are valid only if also printed at each branch office
  4. DElectronic maintenance requires prior approval of the High Court

Explanation

Section 6(2) allows the Registrar to keep records wholly or partly in electronic form subject to prescribed safeguards, and section 6(3) provides that references to an entry mean the entry as so maintained. No High Court approval is mentioned.

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