law: Trade Marks Act, 1999  
  5.  Trade Marks Registry and officers
  
  thereof.-
  (1) For the purposes of this Act, there shall
  
  be a trade marks registry and the Trade Marks Registry established under the
  
  Trade and Merchandise Marks Act, 1958 (43 of 1958) shall be the Trade Marks
  
  Registry under this Act.
  The head office of the Trade Marks Registry
  
  shall be at such place as the Central Government may specify, and for the
  
  purpose of facilitating the registration of trade marks, there may be
  
  established at such places as the Central Government may think fit branch
  
  offices of the Trade Marks Registry.
  The Central Government may, by notification in
  
  the Official Gazette, define the territorial limits within which an office of
  
  the Trade Marks Registry may exercise its functions.
  (4) There shall be a seal of the Trade Mark
  
  Registry.