LAWS OF MALAWI Registered Designs Registered Designs Cap. 49:05 (b) remit the proceedings to the Tribunal with such instructions for further consideration, report, proceedings or evidence as the High Court may think fit to give; (c) exercise any of the powers which could have been exercised by the Tribunal in the proceedings in connection with which the appeal is brought; (d) make such order as it may think just as to the costs of the appeal or of earlier proceedings in the matter before the Tribunal. PART VIII OFFENCES AND PENALTIES 47. 48. Any person who makes or causes to be made a false entry in the register, or a writing falsely purporting to be a copy of an entry in the register, or who produces or tenders or causes to be produced or tendered in evidence any such writing, knowing the entry or writing to be false, shall be guilty of an offence. (1) Any person who - . Falsification of entries in register Penalty for falsely representing a design as registered (a) falsely represents that a design applied to any article sold by him is registered in respect of that article; or (b) after the copyright in a registered design has expired, marks any article to which the design has been applied with the word “registered,” or any word or words implying that there is a subsisting copyright in the design, or causes any such article to be so marked, shall be liable to a fine of £50 and to imprisonment for six months. (2) 49. For the purpose of this section a person who sells an article on which he has, or has caused to have, stamped, engraved or impressed or to which he has, or has caused to have, otherwise applied the word “registered”, or any other expressing or implying that the design is registered, shall be deemed to represent that the design applied to the article is registered in respect of that article. (1) Any person who - . Deceiving or influencing the Registrar or an officer (a) for the purpose of deceiving the Registrar or any other officer of the Designs Office in the execution of this Act; or (b) for the purpose of procuring or influencing the doing or omission of anything in relation to this Act or any other matter thereunder, makes or submits a false statement or representation, whether orally or in writing, knowing the same to be false, shall be guilty of an offence. 23

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