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Designated authority, shall mean such officer of the Central Government not below the rank of Joint Secretary to the Government, or such officer of the State Government not below the rank of Secretary to the Government, as the case may be, as may be specified by the Central Government or, as the case may be, the State Government, by a notification published in the Official Gazette. [Prevention of Terrorism Act, 2000 (15 of 2000), s. 2 (b)]If a authority has been designated by a statute enjoining him to perform statutory duties indisputably it is he who has to do the same, A. Sudhakar v. Postmaster General Hydrabad, (2006) 4 SCC 348....
Propreitor of a new or original design
Propreitor of a new or original design, 'propreitor of a new or original design',--(i) where the author of the design, for good consideration, executes the work for some other person, means the person for whom the design is so executed;(ii) where any person acquires the design or the right to apply the design to any article, either exclusively of any other person or otherwise, means, in the respect and to the extent in and to which the design or right has been so acquired, the person by whom the design or right is so acquired; and(iii) in any other case, means the author of the design;and where the property in or the right to apply, the design has devolved from the original proprietor upon any other person, includes that other person. [Designs Act, 2000 (16 of 2000) s. 2(j)]...
Proprietor of a new or original design
Proprietor of a new or original design, (i) where the author of the design, for good consideration, executes the work for some other person, means the person for whom the design in so executed; (ii) where any person acquires the design or the right to apply the design to any article, either exclusively of any other person or otherwise, means, in the respect and to the extent in and to which the design or right has been so acquired, the person by whom the design or right is so acquired; and (iii) in any other case, means the author of the design; and where the property in or the right to apply the design has devolved from the original proprietor upon any other person, includes that other person. [Designs Act, 2000, s. 2(j)]...
Competent authority
Competent authority, means (i) the speaker in the case of the House of the people or the legislative Assembly of a State or a Union Territory having such Assembly and the Chairman in case of the council of Staff or legislative Council of a State (ii) Chief Justice of India in case of Supreme Court, (iii) Chief Justice of the High Court in the case of the High Court (iv) the President or the Governor, as the case may be, in the case of other authorities established or constituted by or under the Constitution, (v) the administrator appointed under Article 239 of the Constitution. [Right to Information Act, 2005 (22 of 2005) s. 2(e)]Means any authority authorised by the Central Government by notification in the Official Gazette to perform all or any of the functions of the competent authority under this Act. [Child Labour (Prohibition and Regulation) Act, 1986 (61 of 1986), s. 2 (d)]Means, in relation to the United Kingdom, the CAA, and in relation to any other country the authority respo...
Jurisdiction
Jurisdiction, is a verbal coat of many colours. Jurisdiction originally seems to have had the meaning which Lord Reid ascribed to it in Anisminic Ltd. v. Foreign Compensation Commission, (1969) 2 AC 147, namely, the entitlement 'to enter upon the enquiry in question, M.L. Sethi v. R.P. Kapur, (1972) 2 SCC 427: (1973) 1 SCR 697.Jurisdiction, legal authority; extent of power; declaration of the law. Jurisdiction may be limited either locally, as that of a County Court, or personally, as where a Court has a quorum, or as to amount, or as to the character of the questions to be determined.By 'jurisdiction' is meant the extent of the power which is conferred upon the court by its constitu-tion to try a proceedings, Raja Soap Factory v. S.P. Shantharaj, AIR 1965 SC 1449 (1451): (1965) 2 SCR 800.The word 'jurisdiction' is a verbal coat of many colours. Jurisdiction originally means the entitle-ment 'to enter upon the enquiry in question'. If there was an entitlement to enter upon an enquiry, ...
Inspecting authority
Inspecting authority, means a person having quali-fications and wide experience in the field of design, manufacture and testing of gas cylinders and recognised by the Chief Controller as authority for inspection and certification of gas cylinder. [Gas Cylinders Rules, 2004, R. 2(xxvii)]...
Registering authority
Registering authority, means any authority com-petent under any law for the time being in force to register any company, firm or other body of persons, or any trade mark or design, or to grant a patent, See also Act 17 (7 of 1995), s. 2(h). [Bureau of Indian Standards Act, 1986 (63 of 1986), s. 2(p)]...
Territory
Territory, means a geographical area included within a particular government's jurisdiction, the portion of the earth's surface that is in a State's exclusive possession and control, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1485.The use of the word 'territory' in s. 9A(1)(c) indicates that the Statute empowered the Authority while determining the normal value to take into consideration the comparable price of the like article in the exporting country or territory. The placement of this word 'territory' after the word 'country' indicates that the Legislature intended to use the word territory' with reference to a larger geographical area than the exporting country which geographical area or territory has some commercial similarity with the exporting country and the exporting country is a part of the said territory, though not in the political sense but in the economic sense of that word, Designated Authority (Anti Dumping Directorate) v. Holder Topsoe A/s, (2000) 6 SCC 626: AIR 2000 SC 2556...
Designs
Designs. The registration of and rights in designs are governed by the Patents and Designs Act, 1907, as amended by the Patents and Designs Acts,1919, 1928 and 1932 (cited as the Patents and Designs Acts, 1907 to 1932), and the Patent Rules, 1932 S. R. & O. 1932, No. 873.'Design' means only the features of shape, configuration, pattern or ornament applied to any article by any industrial process or means, whether manual, mechanical, or chemical, separate or combined, which in the finished article appeal to and are judged solely by the eye; but does not include any mode or principle of construction, or which is in substance a mere mechanical device (s. 19, Act of 1919).And s. 49 of the principal Act (Act of 1919) (English), as amended, provides as follows:--49.--(1) The comptroller may, on the application made in the prescribed form and manner of any person claiming to be the proprietor of any new or original design not previously published in the United Kingdom, register the design und...
British design
British design, means a design which qualifies for design right protection by reason of a connection with the United Kingdom of the designer or the person by whom the design is commissioned, Halsbury's Laws of England, Vol. 9(2), 4th Edn., Para 488, p. 336....
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