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Arms of foreign state.
Arms of city, etc.
Prohibition of Red Cross, etc. on trade marks.
G.N. 795/38.
Representations of living persons or persons recently dead.
Name or description of goods.
Trade Marks.
13. Where representations of the arms of a foreign state or place appear on a mark the Registrar may call for such justification as he may deem necessary for their use.
14. Where a representation of the arms or emblems of any city, borough, town, place, society, body corporate or institution appears on a mark, the applicant shall, if so required, furnish the Registrar with a consent from such official as the Registrar may consider entitled to give consent to the use of such arms or emblems.
15. Without the authority of the Governor in Council there shall not appear on any trade mark-
(a) the heraldic emblem of the red cross on a white ground formed by reversing the Federal colours of Switzerland, or the words "Red Cross" or "Geneva Cross"; or
(b) any design consisting of a white or silver cross on a red ground, none of the limbs of which extends to the margin of the ground, being the cross comprised in the Arms of the Swiss Confederation; or
(c) any design being a colourable imitation of the heraldic emblem of the red cross on a white ground mentioned in paragraph (a) or any words so nearly resembling the words "Red Cross" or "Geneva Cross" as to be capable of being understood as referring to the said emblem; or
(d) any design being a colourable imitation of the design mentioned in paragraph (b).
16. Where the names or representations of living persons appear on a trade mark the Registrar shall, if he so requires, be furnished with consents from such persons before proceeding to register the mark. In the case of persons recently dead the Registrar may call for consents from their legal representatives before proceeding with registration of a trade mark on which their names or representations appear.
17. Where the name or a description of any goods appears on a trade mark the Registrar may refuse to register the mark.
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