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Trade Marks Act 1995
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#### 88 Amendment or cancellation—other specified grounds
(1) Subject to subsection (2) and section 89, a prescribed court may, on the application of an aggrieved person or the Registrar, order that the Register be rectified by:
(a) cancelling the registration of a trade mark; or
(b) removing or amending an entry wrongly made or remaining on the Register; or
(c) entering any condition or limitation affecting the registration of a trade mark that ought to be entered.
(2) An application may be made on any of the following grounds, and on no other grounds:
(a) any of the grounds on which the registration of the trade mark could have been opposed under this Act;
(b) an amendment of the application for the registration of the trade mark was obtained as a result of fraud, false suggestion or misrepresentation;
(c) because of the circumstances applying at the time when the application for rectification is filed, the use of the trade mark is likely to deceive or cause confusion;
(e) if the application is in respect of an entry in the Register—the entry was made, or has been previously amended, as a result of fraud, false suggestion or misrepresentation.
> Note 1: For prescribed court see section 190.
> Note 2: For file, registered owner and this Act see section 6.