Section 27. Power to cancel or vary registration and to rectify the register

CHAPTER VI RECTIFICATION AND CORRECTION OF THE REGISTER 27. Power to cancel or vary registration and to rectify the register .—(1) On application made in the prescribed manner to the[1] [High Court] or to the Registrar by any person aggrieved, the[2] [Registrar or the High Court, as the case may be,] may make such order as it may think fit for cancelling or varying the registration of a geographical indication or authorised user on the ground of any contravention, or failure to observe the condition entered on the register in relation thereto. (2) Any person aggrieved by the absence or omission from the register of any entry, or by any entry made in the register without sufficient cause, or by any entry wrongly remaining on the register, or by any error or defect in any entry in the register, may apply in the prescribed manner to the[1] [High Court] or to the Registrar, and the[2] [Registrar or the High Court, as the case may be,] may make such order for making, expunging or varying the entry as it may think fit. (3) The[2] [Registrar or the High Court, as the case may be,] may in any proceeding under this section decide any question that may be necessary or expedient to decide in connection with the rectification of the register. (4) The[2] [Registrar or the High Court, as the case may be,], of its own motion, may, after giving notice in the prescribed manner to the parties concerned and after giving them an opportunity of being heard, make any order referred to in sub-section (1) or sub-section (2). (5) Any order of the[1] [High Court] rectifying the register shall direct that notice of the rectification shall be served upon the Registrar in the prescribed manner who shall upon receipt of such notice rectify the register accordingly. — 28. Correction of register. The Registrar may, on application made in the prescribed manner by — the registered proprietor or the authorised user, 1. Subs. by Act 33 of 2021, s. 22, for "Appellate Board" (w.e.f. 4-4-2021). 2. Subs. by s. 22. ibid ., for "tribunal" (w.e.f. 4-4-2021). (a) correct any error in the name, address or description of the registered proprietor or the authorised user, as the case may be, of a geographical indication, or any other entry relating to the geographical indication on the register; (b) enter any change in the name, address or description of the association of persons or of producers or any ogranisation or authority, as the case may be, who is registered as proprietor of a geographical indication on the register; (c) cancel the entry of a geographical indication on the register; (d) strike out any goods or class or classes of goods from those in respect of which a geographical indication is registered from the register, and may make any consequential amendment or alteration in the certificate of registration, and for that purpose, may require the certificate of registration to be produced to him.