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TRADE MARKS REGULATIONS, 1970 (L.I. 667)
(2) Before taking any further step the Registrar may either require the person leaving
the fee to give within fourteen days an authority to pay the fee signed by the
registered proprietor, and if he does not give such authority may return the fee and
treat it as not received, or may communicate with the registered proprietor stating
that the fee has been received and that the registration will in due course be
renewed.
Regulation 30—Notice before Removal from Register.
(1) At a date not less than one month nor more than three months before the
expiration of the last registration of a mark, if an application for renewal accompanied
by the prescribed fee has not been received, the Registrar shall notify the registered
proprietor in writing of the approaching expiration.
(2) At a time not less than fourteen days nor more than one month before the
expiration of the last registration of a mark the Registrar may, if no fee as aforesaid
has been received, send a notice in writing to the registered proprietor at his trade or
business address as well as at his address for service, if any.
(3) If at the date of the expiration of the last registration of a mark the renewal fee
has not been paid the Registrar shall advertise the fact forthwith in the Gazette, and
if within two months of that advertisement an application for renewal accompanied by
the prescribed fee and the prescribed late application fee is received, he may renew
the registration without removing the mark from the register.
Regulation 31—Removal of Trade Mark from Register.
Where, at the expiration of two months from the advertisement mentioned in
regulation 30 (3), the fees mentioned therein have not been paid, the Registrar may
remove the mark from the register as of the date of the expiration of the last
registration, but may upon receiving an application for renewal accompanied by the
renewal fee, together with an application for restoration to the register accompanied
by a restoration fee, restore the mark to the register if satisfied that it is just so to do,
and upon such conditions as he may think fit to impose.
Regulation 32—Record of Removal.
Where a trade mark has been removed from the register the Registrar shall cause to
be entered in the register a record of the removal and of the cause thereof.
Regulation 33—Notice and Advertisement of Renewal and Restoration.
Upon the renewal or restoration and renewal of a registration, a notice to that effect
shall be sent to the registered proprietor and the renewal or restoration and renewal
shall be advertised in the Gazette.