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Ord. No. 55/77

Schedule.

Amendment of section 17.

3.

TRADE MARKS (AMENDMENT)

(ii) the date on which such application for protec- tion 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 two 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 ad- ministered 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-

(b)

(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;

delete from the Schedule the name of any country which has denounced the said Convention, or the name of any colony, protectorate or territory on behalf of which the said Convention has been denounced;

(c) otherwise amend the Schedule.".

Section 17(1) of the principal Ordinance is amended-

(a) by deleting the full stop and substituting a colon; and

by inserting the following new proviso-

(b)

"[cf. 142 Geo. 6 c. 22.

s. 19(1).]

Provided that, in relation to the date as of which a trade mark shall be registered and to the date to be deemed the date of registration, this subsection shall, as respects an application to which section 13A applies, have effect subject to that section.".