Under section 10(2) of the Copyright Act, 1957, a Deputy Registrar of Copyrights discharges:

Section 10(1) requires the Central Government to appoint a Registrar of Copyrights and allows it to appoint one or more Deputy Registrars. Under section 10(2), a Deputy Registrar discharges such functions of the Registrar under the Act as the Registrar may from time to time assign to him. He does so under the superintendence and direction of the Registrar. Any reference in the Act to the Registrar of Copyrights includes a Deputy Registrar when he is discharging those functions.

A Deputy Registrar is therefore not independent of the Registrar and takes no assignments from the Commercial Court. Nor is his role confined to the seal: section 9(3) merely provides that the Copyright Office shall have a seal.