law: Semiconductor Integrated Circuits Layout-Design Act, 2000
  26.
  
     Power
  
  of Registrar for cancellation of registration as registered user.
  1.   Without prejudice to
  
  the provisions of section 30, the registration of a person as registered user-
  a.  
  
    may
  
  be cancelled by the Registrar on application in writing in the prescribed manner
  
  of the registered proprietor or of the registered user or of any other
  
  registered user of the layout-design;
  b.  
  
    may
  
  be cancelled by the Registrar on the application in writing in the prescribed
  
  manner of any person on any of the following grounds, namely:-
   
  
   i.  
  
    that
  
  the registered user has used the layout-design otherwise than in accordance
  
  with the agreement under clause (a) of sub-section (1) of section
  
  25;
   
  
   ii.  
  
    that
  
  the proprietor or the registered user misrepresented, or failed to disclose,
  
  some fact material to the application for registration which if accurately
  
  represented or disclosed would not have justified the registration of the
  
  registered user;
   
  
   iii.  
  
    that
  
  the circumstances have changed since the date of registration in such a way
  
  that at the date of such application for cancellation they would not have
  
  justified registration of the registered user;
   
  
   iv.  
  
    that
  
  the registration ought not to have been effected having regard to right vested
  
  in the applicant by virtue of a contract in the performance of which he is interested.
  a.  
  
     
  b.  
  
     
  c.  
  
    may
  
  be cancelled by the Registrar on his own motion or on the application in
  
  writing in the prescribed manner by any person on the ground that any
  
  stipulation in the agreement between the registered proprietor and the
  
  registered user regarding the topographical dimensions of the layout-design is
  
  either not being enforced or is not being complied with;
  d.   may be cancelled by
  
  the Registrar if the layout-design is no longer registered.
  1.     
  2.   The Registrar shall
  
  issue notice in the prescribed manner in respect of every application under
  
  this section to the registered proprietor and each registered user (not being
  
  the applicant) of the layout-design.
  3.   The procedure for
  
  cancelling a registration shall be such as may be prescribed:
  Provided that before cancelling of registration, the registered proprietor shall be
  
  given a reasonable opportunity of being heard.