Trade Marks Register (Reconstruction).

(3) If, upon receipt of such application and the evidence in support, the Registrar is satisfied that the applicant is entitled to be registered as the proprietor of a trade mark previously registered in the old register, he shall register the trade mark in the new register and shall make all entries necessary and appropriate to show that the applicant is the registered proprietor thereof.

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4. If the applicant is in possession of the original certificate of registration he shall produce the same to the Registrar who shall indorse thereon the fact of registration in the new register in Form 3 of the Schedule to this Ordinance.

5. Where the applicant fails to produce to the Registrar the original certificate of registration, the Registrar, if he is satisfied by other evidence that the applicant is entitled to be registered as the registered proprietor of a trade mark, shall prepare a fresh certificate of registration and shall indorse thereon the fact of registration in the new register in Form 4 of the Schedule to this Ordinance.

6. Where there is no evidence before the Registrar as to the date of the original application for registration upon which registration in the old register was made or where such evidence as there may be is unsatisfactory, the Registrar shall register as the date of such application the date of the Gazette notification by which application for registration of the trade mark was first advertised and thereafter, unless and until the actual date of the receipt of the original application shall have been satisfactorily ascertained and entered on the new register, the date of such Gazette notification shall for the purposes of this Ordinance and of the principal Ordinance be deemed to be the date of registration.

7. A trade mark which was registered in the old register and is not, within two years of the commencement of this Ordinance, also registered in the new register shall not be deemed to be a registered trade mark.

8. (1) If the expiration of the last registration of a trade mark has occurred or occurs before the commencement of this Ordinance or will occur after the commencement of


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