(5) [Articles Temporarily or Accidentally Entering the Territory of a

Contracting Party] Notwithstanding paragraph (1)(iii), where a microchip is

part of a vehicle, vessel, aircraft or space craft entering, temporarily or

accidentally, the territory of a Contracting Party, the said Contracting Party

shall not consider such entering as an importation in the sense of that

provision. For the purposes of the preceding sentence, "territory" also means

territorial waters and airspace.

(6) [Exhaustion of Rights]

Notwithstanding paragraph (1)(iii), any

Contracting Party may consider lawful the performance, without the

authorization of the holder of the right, of any of the acts referred to in

that provision where the act is performed in respect of a protected

layout-design (topography), or in respect of a microchip in which such a

layout-design (topography) is incorporated, that has been put on the market

by, or with the consent of, the holder of the right.

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