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CIRCUIT LAYOUTS ACT 1989
TABLE OF PROVISIONS
Long Title
1. Short title
2. Commencement
3. Extension to external Territories
4. Act binds the Crown
5. Interpretation
6. Residence not affected by temporary absence
7. Application to circuit layouts made before commencement
8. Commercial exploitation
9. Exclusive right
10. Making an eligible layout
11. Originality
12. Licence of owner of EL rights
13. Substantial part of eligible layout
14. References to all joint makers
15. References to any one or more joint makers
16. Ownership of EL rights
17. Nature of EL rights
18. EL rights to subsist without regard to makers who are not eligible persons
19. Infringement
20. Innocent commercial exploitation
21. Copying for private use
22. Copying for research or teaching purposes
23. Evaluation or analysis
24. Commercial exploitation of eligible layouts previously exploited under licence
25. Use for purposes of defence or security
26. Application of Part to counterclaims
27. Actions for infringement
28. Limitation of actions
29. Application
30. Rights of exclusive licensee
31. Joinder of owner or exclusive licensee as a party
32. Defences available against exclusive licensee
33. Assessment of damages where exclusive licence granted
34. Apportionment of profits between owner and exclusive licensee
35. Separate actions in relation to the same infringement
36. Liability for costs
37. Presumptions as to subsistence and ownership of EL rights
38. Affidavit evidence
39. Evidentiary labels
40. Exercise of jurisdiction
41. Appeals
42. Eligible foreign countries
43. Limitation on power of courts to grant relief in proceedings under this Act
44. Prospective ownership of EL rights
45. Assignments and licences of EL rights
46. Groundless threats of legal proceedings
47. Jurisdiction of Federal Court of Australia
48. Regulations
49. Consequential amendments of other Acts
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