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Amendment to the County Court Rules (Northern Ireland) 1981(1)

7.  In Order 52 (Miscellaneous Enactments), in rule 13 (Application for forfeiture orders under the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988)—

(a)for paragraph 1, substitute “An application under section 114, 204, or 231 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 (c. 48) or an application under section 97 of the Trade Marks Act 1994 (c. 26) shall be made by Notice in Form 323.”;

(b)in paragraph 2, for “under section 58C of the Trade Marks Act 1938,” substitute “under section 97 of the Trade Marks Act 1994,”; and

(c)after paragraph 3, insert—

(4) Where the Judge makes an order for delivery up, forfeiture or destruction of infringing goods or articles designed or adapted to make such goods the defendant shall pay the costs of complying with the order unless the Judge orders otherwise.

(5) Without prejudice to any other provisions of these Rules, the Judge may, where he finds that an intellectual property right has been infringed, order appropriate measures for the dissemination and publication of the judgment to be made at the expense of the defendant..

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S.R. 1981 No.225 to which the most recent relevant amendments were made by S.R. 1999 No. 464, S.R. 2002 No.412 and S.R. 2003 No. 272