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PATENTS ACT 1990 - SECT 197

Evidence--certificate and copies of documents

  (1)   A signed certificate to the effect that:

  (a)   anything required or permitted by this Act or the 1952 Act to be done or not to be done had or had not been done on a date specified in the certificate; or

  (b)   a document in the Patent Office or its library was available for public inspection on a date specified in the certificate;

is prima facie evidence of the matters in the certificate.

  (2)   A signed copy of or signed extract from the Register is admissible in any proceedings as if it were the original.

  (3)   A signed copy of or signed extract from a document in the Patent Office or its library is admissible in any proceedings as if it were the original.

  (4)   In this section:

"signed" means signed by the Commissioner.


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