Act Number: 48

Act Name: The Geographical Indications of Goods (Registration and Protection) Act, 1999

Year: 1999

Enactment Date: 1999-12-30

Long Title: An Act to provide for the registration and better protection of geographical indications relating to goods.

Ministry: Ministry of Commerce and Industry

Department: Department of Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade

Section 54: Punishment for abetement in India of acts done out of India.
    If any person, being within India, abets the commission, without India, of any act which, if committed in India, would, under this Act, be an offence, he may be tried for such abetement in any place in India in which he may be found, and be punished therefor with the punishment to which he would be liable if he had himself committed in that place the act which he abetted.
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