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~SECOND
SCHEDULE,
TRANSITIONAL PROVIStONS
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Validity ofregistrations under previous Acts
I" (1) Subject to the provisions of this paragraph and section 13
of this Act, the validity 'of the original entry of a trade mark on the
register of trade marks existing at the commencement of-the Trade
Marks Ordinance (Cap.. 180) shall be determined in -accordance
with the Ordinance in force at the date of that entry, and any such
trade mark shall retain .its original date, but for all other purposes
it shall be .deemed to.have been registered under the said Trade
Marks Ordinance,
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" ' . (2) No trade mark whichwas on the register at the commencement of the Trade Marks Ordinance (Cap.. 180), and which under
that Ordinance was then a registrable trade mark, shall be removed
from the register on the ground that it was not registrableunder the
Ordinance in force on the date of its registration..
(3) No trade mark which was on the register at the commencement of this Act, and which, having regard to any amendment
by this Act of the law relating to registration' of trade marks, whether
as respects limitations that may be imposed on registration or as
respects any other matter, is a registrable trade mark under this
Act, shall be removed from the register on the ground that it was not
registrable under the Ordinancein force at the date of its registration,
(4) ·Nothing in this Act . shall .be taken to invalidate the
original registration of a trade· mark, that immediately before the.
commencement of. this" Act was validly on the register..
(5) Nothing in this Act shall subject any person to any
liability in respect of any act or thing done before the commencement of this Act to which he would not have been subject under the
Ordinance then in force"
Association of trade marks assignable or transmissible as a whole
2" Where immediately before the commencement of this Act a
trade mark was registered in Part B of the register subject to a
condition rendering it assignable or transmissible only as a whole
wi~ anothe~ trade mark registered in the name of the same proprietor or WIth two or more other trade marks so registered, and
not separately, the trade marks shall be deemed to be associated
trade marks, and the entries in the register relating thereto may be
amended accordingly..