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Clerk to the Legislative Council.

This printed impression has been carefully comprad by me with the bill, and is found by me to be a true and correctly printed copy of the said bUI

Clerk to the Legislative Council.

HOANG CUNG

No. $5 OF 1977

I assent.

M. N. L

Governor.

29th June, 1977.

An Ordinance to amend the Trade Marks Ordinance.

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Enacted by the Governor of Hong Kong, with the advice and con-

sent of the Legislative Council thereof,

1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Trade Marks (Amendment) Shan due and Ordinance 1977 and shall come into operation on a day to be appointed somecomdal by the Governor by police in the Gazerte.

2,

The principal Ordinance is amended by adding, after section 13, Addition of new the following "new "section-

**Pripdy for

application made in Conreadon DOUNITY.

(gl. 7 Edw. 7 E. 19.

13A. (1) Subject to subsection (2), any person who has applied for protection for any trade mark in a Convention country, or his legal representative or assignee, shall be entitled to registration of his trade mark under this Ordin- unce in priority to other applicants and the registration shall have the same date as the date of the application in the Convention country.

(2) For the purposes of obtaining priority under sub- section (1), the application for registration of the trade mark under this Ordinance must be made within 6 months from

(a) the date of application for protection in the Con-

vention country; or

section 134. (Cap. 41)