law: Geographical Indications of Goods (Registration and Protection) Act, 1999
  18. Duration,
  
  renewal, removal and restoration of registration.-
  1.  The
  
  registration of a geographical indication shall be for a period of ten years,
  
  but may be renewed from time to time in accordance with the provisions of this
  
  section.
  2.  The
  
  registration of an authorised user shall be for a period of ten years or for
  
  the period till the date on which the registration of the geographical
  
  indication in respect of which the auhorised user is registered expires,
  
  whichever is earlier.
  3.  The
  
  Registrar shall, on application made in the prescribed manner, by the
  
  registered proprietor or by the authorised user and within the prescribed
  
  period and subject to the payment of the prescribed fee, renew the registration
  
  of the geographical indication or authorised user, as the case may be, for a
  
  period of ten years from the date of expiration of the original registration or
  
  of the last renewal of registration, as the case may be (which date is in this
  
  section referred to as the expiration of he last registration).
  4.    At
  
  the prescribed time before the expiration of the last registration of a
  
  geographical indication or the authorised user, as the case may be, the
  
  Registrar shall send notice in the prescribed manner to the registered
  
  proprietor or the authorised use , as the case may be, of the date of
  
  expiration and the conditions as to payment of fees and otherwise upon which a
  
  renewal of registration may be obtained, and, if at the expiration of time
  
  prescribed in that behalf those conditions have not been duly complied with,
  
  the Registrar may remove the geographical indication or the authorised user, as
  
  the case may be, from the register:
  Provided that the Registrar shall
  
  not remove the geographical indication or the authorised user, as the case may
  
  be, from the register, if an application is made in the prescribed form and the
  
  prescribed fee and surcharge is paid within six months from t e expiration of
  
  the last registration of the geographical indication or the authorised user, as
  
  the case may be, and shall renew the registration of geographical indication or
  
  the authorised user, as the case may be, for a period of ten years under
  
  sub-section (3).
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  5.  Where
  
  a geographical indication or authorised user, as the case may be, has been
  
  removed from the register for non-payment of the prescribed fee, the Registrar
  
  shall, after six months and within one year from the expiration of the last
  
  registration o the geographical indication or the authorised user, as the case
  
  may be, on receipt of an application in the prescribed form and on payment of
  
  the prescribed fee, if satisfied that it is just so to do, restore the
  
  geographical and renew registration of the geographical indication or
  
  authorised user, as the case may be, either generally or subject to such
  
  condition or limitation as he thinks fit to impose, for a period of ten years
  
  fro indication or the authorise user, as the case may be, to the register the
  
  expiration of the last registration.