CAP. 43]

Trade Marks

[1986 Ed.

Schedule,

prior to the actual date on which his trade mark is registered under this Ordinance.

(4) An application for the registration of a trade mark under this section shall, subject to such further requirements as may be prescribed-

(a) be made in the same manner as an ordinary application under this Ordinance; and

(b) specify-

(i) the Convention country in which the application for protection, or the first such application, was made; and

(ii) the date on which such application for protection was made.

(5) Where a person has applied for protection for any trade mark by an application which-

(a) in accordance with the terms of a treaty subsisting between any 2 or more Convention countries, is equivalent to an application duly made in any one of those Convention countries; or

(b) in accordance with the law of any Convention country, is equivalent to an application duly made in that Convention country,

he shall be deemed for the purposes of this section to have applied in that Convention country.

(6) In this section “Convention country" means-

(a) the United Kingdom;

(b) any country (including any colony, protectorate or territory subject to the authority or under the suzerainty of another country, or territory administered by another country) for the time being specified in the Schedule.

(7) The Governor may by order published in the Gazette-

(a) add to the Schedule-

(i) the name of any country which has acceded to the Paris Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property 1883, as revised at Brussels in 1900, at Washington in 1911, at the Hague in 1925, at London in 1934, at Lisbon in 1958 and at Stockholm in 1967, and as the same may be revised from time to time;

(ii) the name of any colony, protectorate or territory subject to the authority or under the suzerainty of another country (other than the United Kingdom), or territory administered by another country (other than the United Kingdom), on behalf of which such other country has acceded to the said Convention;

(b) delete from the Schedule the name of any country which has denounced the said Convention, or the name of any

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