LAWS OF MALAWI Registered Designs Registered Designs Cap. 49:05 (b) the design, at the time when it was registered, was a corresponding design in relation to an artistic work in which copyright subsisted under any written law relating to copyright; (c) by reason of a previous use of that artistic work, the design would not have been registrable under this Act but for section 12(2), or (d) the copyright in that work under any written law relating to copyright has expired;. Or on any other ground on which the Registrar could have refused to register the design; and the Registrar may make such order on the application as he thinks fit. (3) An appeal shall lie from any order of the Registrar under subsection (2). PART VI FUNCTIONS OF REGISTRAR IN RELATION TO CERTAIN EVIDENCE, DOCUMENTS AND POWERS 26. (1) A certificate purporting to be signed by the Registrar and certifying that any entry which he is authorized by or under this Act to make has or has not been made, or that any other thing which he is so authorized to do has or has not been done, shall be prima facie evidence of the matters so certified. Evidence of certain entries and documents (2) 27. A copy of any entry in the register or of any representation, specimen or document kept in the Designs Office or an extract from the register or any such document, purporting to be certified by the Registrar and to be sealed with the seal of the Patent Office, shall be admitted in evidence without further proof and without production of the original. (1) Subject to this section and to any regulation made by the Minister in pursuance of section 11(3), the representation or specimen of a design registered under this Act shall be open to inspection at the Designs Office on and after the day on which the certificate of registration is issued (2) In the case of a design registered in respect of an article of any class prescribed for the purposes of this subsection, no representation or specimen of the design lodged in pursuance of the application shall, until the expiration of such period after the day on which the certificate of registration is issued as may be prescribed in relation to articles of that class, be open to inspection at the Designs Office except by the registered proprietor, a person authorized in writing by the registered proprietor, or a person authorized by the Registrar, the Tribunal or by a court: Provided that where the Registrar proposes to refuse an application for the registration of any other design on the ground that it is the same as the first-mentioned design or differs firm that design only in immaterial details or in features which are variants commonly used in the trade, the applicant shall be entitled to inspect the representation or specimen of the first-mentioned design lodged in pursuance of the application for registration of that design. 18 Inspection of registered designs