law: Semiconductor Integrated Circuits Layout-Design Act, 2000
  41.
  
     Power
  
  of the Board to cancel registration.
  1.   Any person may make
  
  an application, in the prescribed form accompanied by prescribed fee, to the
  
  Appellate Board for cancellation of the registration of a layout-design
  
  registered under this Act or registration of assignment or transmission
  
  relating thereto, as the case may be, on the ground that-
  a.  
  
    in
  
  the case of the registration of a layout-design, the layout-design is
  
  prohibited for being registered under section 7 ; or
  b.  
  
    in
  
  the case of the registration of assignment or transmission relating to a
  
  registered layout-design, such assignment or transmission is contrary to any
  
  provision of the law for the time being in force.
  2.  The
  
  Appellate Board shall, on receipt of an application under sub-section (1) ,
  
  give notice to the opposite parties in the prescribed manner and after giving
  
  them an opportunity of being heard, make such order as it may deem fit
  
  regarding cancellation of registration:
  Provided that where the ground of cancellation has been established with respect only to
  
  a part of a layout-design, the Board shall cancel only such part and the
  
  remaining part of the layout-design if capable of performing as a semiconductor
  
  integrated circuit shall be retained as registered on the register in the name
  
  of the registered proprietor of such layout design.
  1.     
  2.     
  3.   Any cancellation of
  
  the registration of a layout-design either in whole or in part under
  
  sub-section (2) shall be deemed to be effective on the date from which
  
  the period of ten years referred to in section 15 is countable in respect of
  
  that layout-design.
  4.   The Appellate Board
  
  shall, without delay after making any order of cancellation under sub-section (2) ,
  
  send a copy of such order to the Registrar who shall correct the register to
  
  give effect to such order.