9. (1) Where a portrait of H.E. the President or Her Britannic Majesty Portraits,
or of any member of the British Royal Family, or a reproduction of the armorial
armorial bearings, insignia, orders of chivalry, decorations or flags of
bearings, etc.
any country, city, borough, town, place, society, body corporate,
institution or person appears on a design, the Registrar, before
proceeding to register the design, shall, if he so requires, be furnished
with a consent to the registration and use of such portrait or reproduction
from such official or other person as appears to the Registrar to be
entitled to give consent, and in default of such consent he may refuse to
register the design.
(2) Where the name or portrait of a living person appears on a design,
the Registrar shall be furnished, if he so requires, with consent from
such person before proceeding to register the design. In the case of a
person recently dead, the Registrar may call for consent from his legal
representative before proceeding with the registration of a design on
which the name or portrait of the deceased person appears.
10. There shall be excluded from registration under the Act designs to Designs
be applied to any of the following articles, namely:
excluded from
(a)
works of sculpture other than casts or models used or intended to registration
be used as models or patterns to be multiplied by any industrial process; under section 7
(3)
(b)
wall plaques and medals; and
(c)
printed matter primarily of a literary or artistic character,
including bookjackets, calendars, certificates, coupons, dressmaking
patterns, greetings cards, leaflets, maps, plans, postcards, stamps, trade
advertisements, trade forms, and cards, transfers and the like.
11. (1) An application for registration under section thirteen shall
Convention
contain a declaration that the application in a convention country upon applications
which the applicant relies is the first application made in a convention
country in respect of the design, whether by the applicant or by any
person of whom he claims to be the legal representative or assignee, and
shall specify the convention country in which such foreign application
was made, or is to be deemed under subsection (3) of section thirteen to
have been made, and the official date thereof.
(2) In addition to the representations or specimens lodged with every
convention application, there shall be lodged with the application or