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 64: Extension of time.
    (1) If the Registrar is satisfied, on application made to him in the prescribed manner and accompanied by the prescribed fee, that there is sufficient cause for extending the time for doing any act (not being a time expressly provided in the Act), whether the time so specified has expired or not, he may, subject to such conditions as he may think fit to impose, extend the time and inform the parties accordingly.
     (2) Nothing in sub-section (1) shall be deemed to require the Registrar to hear the parties before disposing of an application for extension of time, and no appeal shall lie from any order of the Registrar under this section.
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