Section 24. Fees

CHAPTER VI GENERAL Fees 24. Fees .—(1) There shall be paid in respect of the registration of designs and applications therefor and in respect of other matters relating to designs under this Act such fees as may be prescribed. (2) A proceeding in respect of which a fee is payable under this Act or the rules made thereunder shall be of no effect unless the fee has been paid. Provisions as to registers and other documents in the patent office 25 . Notice of trust not to be entered in registers .—There shall not be entered in any register kept under this Act, or be receivable by the Controller, any notice of any trust expressed, implied or constructive. 26 . Inspection of and extracts from registers .—Every register kept under this Act shall at all convenient times be open to the inspection of the public, subject to the provisions of this Act; and certified copies, sealed with the seal of the Patent Office, of any entry in any such register shall be given to any person requiring the same on payment of the prescribed fee: Provided that where such register is maintained wholly or partly on computer, the inspection of such register under this section shall be made by inspecting the computer printout of the relevant entry in the register so maintained on computer. 27 . Privilege of reports of Controller .—Reports of or to the Controller made under this Act other than the report referred to in section 45 shall not in any case be published or be open to public inspection. 28 . Prohibition and publication of specification, drawings, etc., where application abandoned, etc .—Where an application for a design has been abandoned or refused, the application and any drawings, photographs, tracings, representations or specimens left in connection with the application shall not at any time be open to public inspection or be published by the Controller. 29 . Power of Controller to correct clerical errors .—The Controller may, on request in writing accompanied by the prescribed fee, correct any clerical error in the representation of a design or in the name or address of the proprietor of any design, or in any other matter, which is entered upon the register of designs.