Patents [CAP.400 65 PART XII OFFENCES AND PENALTIES 83. If any person makes or causes to be made a false entry in any register kept under this Act. or a writing falsely purporting to be a copy of an entry in any such register. or produces or tenders or causes to be produced or tendered in evidence any such writing, knowing the entry or writing to be false. he shall be guilty of an offence. 84. (I) Ani person who­ (a) for the purpose of deceiving the Registrar or any other offi­ cer of the Patent Office in the execution of the provisions of this Act: or Falsification of certain documents Decejving or influencing the Registrar or an officer (b) for the purpose of procuring or influencing the doing or omission of anything in relation to thereunder; th~ Act or any matter 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. (2) Any person who. having innocently made a false statement or representation. whether orally or in writing, for the purpose of procuring or int1uencing the doing or omission of anything in rela­ tion to this Act or any matter thereunder and who, on becoming aware that such statement or representation was false, fails to advise the Registrar forthwith of such falsity, shall be guilty of an offence. (No. 12 of 1959) 85. Any person who. after having been sworn, or having in lieu thereof made an affirmation or declaration. wilfully gives false evi­ dence before the Registrar High Court concerning the subject-mat­ ter of the proceeding in question, knowing such evidence to be false or not knowing or believing it to be true, shall be guilty of an offence. Witncss giving fulse evidence (As amended by Act No. 18 of 1980) 86. (I) Any officer of the Patent Office who buys, sells, acquires, or traffics in any invention or patent or any right under a patent shall be guilty of an offence. (2) Every purchase, sale or acquisition, and every assignment of any invention oi patent, by or to any such officer shall be null and void. (3) Nothing I!J this section contained shall apply to the inventor or to any acquisition by bequest or devolution in law. Prohibition on trafficking in patents by officers in Patent Office