CAP. 262]
33 of 1947.
9 of 1950.
Short title.
(Cap. 43.)
Interpretation.
Application for registration in new register.
Schedule. Forms 1, 2,
Trade Marks Register (Reconstruction).
CHAPTER 262.
TRADE MARKS REGISTER (RECONSTRUCTION).
To authorize and provide for the reconstruction of the Register of Trade Marks formerly kept under the Trade Marks Ordinance, (Chapter 43 of the Revised Edition) and to amend and modify the application of the said Ordinance.
[9th February, 1948.]
1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Trade Marks Register (Reconstruction) Ordinance, and shall be construed and take effect as one with the Trade Marks Ordinance, hereinafter referred to as the principal Ordinance.
2. In this Ordinance-
"new register" means any register kept by the Registrar for the purpose of complying with section 4 of the principal Ordinance, not being a register kept by the Registrar prior to the 25th day of December, 1941;
"old register" means the register of trade marks which, prior to the 25th day of December, 1941, was kept by the Registrar under section 4 of the principal Ordinance.
3. (1) Any person claiming to have been the registered proprietor of a trade mark registered in the old register or to have become entitled thereto by assignment, transmission or other operation of law may, within two years from the commencement of this Ordinance, apply in writing to the Registrar in the prescribed manner for the registration of such trade mark and for the appropriate entries to be made to show that he is the registered proprietor thereof. Any such application shall be supported by such evidence as is necessary to substantiate the claim.
(2) In the event of such application being made in the name of the person who was registered as the proprietor of the trade mark in the old register it shall be made in Form 1 of the Schedule to this Ordinance. In every other case it shall be made in Form 2 of the Schedule to this Ordinance. In addition to any other fees prescribed, a fee of twenty dollars shall be payable upon every such application.
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