Trade Marks Act, 1999
74. Filling of regulations governing the use
of a certificate trade mark .-
(1) There shall be filed at the Trade Marks
Registry in respect of every mark registered as a certification trade mark
regulations for governing the use thereof, which shall include provisions as to
the cases in which the proprietor is to certify goods or services and to
authorize the use of the certification trade mark, and may contain any other
provisions which the Registrar may by general or special order require or
permit to be inserted therein (including provisions conferring a right of
appeal to the Registrar against any refusal of the proprietor to certify goods
or to authorize the use of the certification trade mark in accordance with the
regulations) and regulations so filed shall be open to inspection in like
manner as the register as provided in section 148.
(2) The regulations so filed may, on the
application of the registered proprietor, be altered by the Registrar.
(3) The Registrar may cause such application
to be advertised in any case where it appears to him expedient so to do, and
where he does so, if within the time specified in the advertisement any person
gives notices of opposition to the application, the Registrar shall not decide
the matter without giving the parties an opportunity of being heard.