322 No. 6 of 2016] Layout-designs of Integrated Circuits (b) as may be determined by a method agreed between the Government and the qualified owner; or (c) in default of agreement, as is determined by the High Court on the application of either the Government or the qualified owner. Reference of disputes as to government use 51. (1) Any dispute as to— (a) the exercise by the government or a person authorised by the Minister of the powers conferred by section fortyseven; (b) the terms for the use of a registered layout-design for the service of the State under section forty-seven; or (c) the right of any person to receive any payment determined in terms of paragraph (b); (2) A dispute referred to under subsection (1) may be referred to the High Court by any party to the dispute. (3) In any proceedings under this section to which a government or a person authorised is party to, the Minister may— (a) if the qualified owner of the registered design concerned is a party to the proceedings, apply for revocation of the registration of the design upon any ground upon which its registration may be revoked under section thirtytwo; or (b) in any case, put in issue the validity of the registration of the design concerned without applying for its revocation. (4) In determining any dispute arising from section fifty-one, as to terms for the exploitation of a registered layout-design for the service of the State, the High Court shall have regard to any benefit or compensation which that person or any person from whom he derives title may have received or may be entitled to receive, directly or indirectly, from the government in respect of the design in question. Licence to remedy anticompetitive practice 52. (1) A person who claims that the person requires a licence to do any act referred to in section forty-seven, may apply to the High Court for the grant of a licence on the ground that the grant of the licence is necessary to remedy an anti-competitive practice. (2) If the High Court is satisfied that the ground, referred to in subsection (1), has been established, the Court may make an order for the grant of a licence in accordance with the application upon such terms as the Court considers appropriate in the circumstances.

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