Preamble1 - THE GEOGRAPHICAL INDICATION OF GOODS (REGISTRATION) ACT, 1999
Chapter I Section1 - Short title, extent and commencement
Section2 - Definitions and interpretation
Chapter II Section3 - Registrar of Geographical Indications
Section4 - Power of Registrar to withdraw or transfer cases, etc
Section5 - Geographical Indications Registry and offices thereof
Section6 - Register of Geographical Indications
Section7 - Part A and Part B of the register
Section8 - Registration to be in respect of particular goods and area
Section9 - Prohibition of registration of certain geographical indications
Section10 - Registration of homonymous geographical indications
Chapter III Section11 - Application for registration
Section12 - Withdrawal of acceptance
Section13 - Advertisement of application
Section14 - Opposition to registration
Section15 - Correction and amendment
Section16 - Registration
Section17 - Application for registration as authorised user
Section18 - Duration, renewal, removal and restoration of registration
Section19 - Effect of removal from register for failure to pay fee for renewal
Chapter IV Section20 - No action for infringement of unregistered geographical indication
Section21 - Rights conferred by registration
Section22 - Infringement or registered geographical indications
Section23 - Registration to be prima facie evidence of validity
Section24 - Prohibition of assignment or transmission, etc
Chapter V Section25 - Prohibition of registration of geographical indication as trade mark
Section26 - Protection to certain trade marks
Chapter VI Section27 - Power to cancel or vary registration and to rectify the register
Section28 - Correction of register
Section29 - Alternation of registered geographical indications
Section30 - Adaptation of entries in register to amend or substitute classification of goods
Chapter VII Section31 - Appeals to the Appellate Board
Section32 - Bar of jurisdiction of courts, etc
Section33 - Procedure of the Appellate Board
Section34 - Procedure for application for notification, etc., before Appellate Board
Section35 - Appearance of Registrar in legal proceedings
Section36 - Costs of Registrar in proceedings before Appellate Board
Chapter VIII Section37 - Meaning of applying geographical indications
Section38 - Falsifying and falsely applying geographical indications
Section39 - Penalty for applying false geographical indications
Section40 - Penalty for selling goods to which false geographical indication is applied
Section41 - Enhanced penalty on second or subsequent conviction
Section42 - Penalty for falsely representing a geographical indication as registered
Section43 - Penalty for improperly describing a place of business as connected with the Geographical Indications Registry
Section44 - Penalty for falsification of entries in the register
Section45 - No offence in certain cases
Section46 - Forfeiture of goods
Section47 - Exemption of certain persons employed in ordinary course of business
Section48 - Procedure where invalidity of registration is pleaded by the accused
Section49 - Offences by companies
Section50 - Cognizance of certain offences and the powers of police officer for search and seizure
Section51 - Costs of defence of prosecution
Section52 - Limitation of prosecution
Section53 - Information as to commission of offence
Section54 - Punishment for abetement in India of acts done out of India
Chapter IX Section55 - Protection of action taken in good faith
Section56 - Certain persons to be public servants
Section57 - Stay of proceedings where the validity of registration of the geographical indication is questioned, etc
Section58 - Application for rectification of register to be made to Appellate Board in certain cases
Section59 - Implied warranty on sale of indicated goods
Section60 - Powers of Registrar
Section61 - Exercise of discretionary power by Registrar
Section62 - Evidence before Registrar
Section63 - Death of party to a proceeding
Section64 - Extension of time
Section65 - Abandonment
Section66 - Suit for infringement, etc., to be instituted before district court
Section67 - Relief in suit for infringement or for passing off
Section68 - Authorised user to be impleaded in certain proceedings
Section69 - Evidence of entries to register, etc., and things done by the Registrar
Section70 - Registrar and other officers not compellable to produce register, etc
Section71 - Power to require goods to show indication of origin
Section72 - Certificate of validity
Section73 - Groundless threats of legal proceedings
Section74 - Address for service
Section75 - Trade usages, etc., to be taken into consideration
Section76 - Agents
Section77 - Indexes
Section78 - Documents open to public inspection
Section79 - Reports of Registrar to be placed before Parliament
Section80 - Fees and surcharge
Section81 - Savings in respect of certain matters in Chapter VIII
Section82 - Declarations as to title of geographical indication not registrable under the Registration Act, 1908
Section83 - Government to be bound
Section84 - Special provisions relating to applications for registration from citizens of convention countries
Section85 - Provision as to reciprocity
Section86 - Powers of Central Government to remove difficulties
Section87 - Power to make rules