{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/trade-marks-act-1938-repealed-31101994/section-32",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/Geo6/1-2/22",
  "legislation_title": "Trade Marks Act 1938 (repealed 31.10.1994)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/trade-marks-act-1938-repealed-31101994",
  "path": "section/32",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "32",
  "heading": "General power to rectify entries in register.",
  "text": "(1) Any person aggrieved by the non-insertion in or omission from the register of any entry, or by any entry made in the register without sufficient cause, or by any entry wrongly remaining on the register, or by any error or defect in any entry in the register, may apply in the prescribed manner to the Court or, at the option of the applicant and subject to the provisions of section fifty-four of this Act, to the Registrar,may apply to the Court or, at the option of the applicant and subject to the provisions of section 54 of this Act, in the prescribed manner to the Registrar, and the tribunal may make such order for making, expunging or varying the entry as the tribunal may think fit.\n(2) The tribunal may in any proceeding under this section decide any question that it may be necessary or expedient to decide in connection with the rectification of the register.\n(3) In case of fraud in the registration, assignment or transmission of a registered trade mark, the Registrar may himself apply to the Court under the provisions of this section.\n(4) Any order of the Court rectifying the register shall direct that notice of the rectification shall be served in the prescribed manner on the Registrar, and the Registrar shall on receipt of the notice rectify the register accordingly.\n(5) The power to rectify the register conferred by this section shall include power to remove a registration in Part A of the register to Part B.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
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      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words “may apply to the Court” to “the Registrar” substituted (N.I.) for words “may apply in the prescribed manner” to “the Registrar” by Judicature (Northern Ireland) Act 1978 (c. 23, SIF 38), Sch. 5 Pt. II."
    }
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Geo6/1-2/22/section/32",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T11:33:44.496031+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}