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Trademarks
(g) having been entitled to practise as a trademark agent, has
ceased to be so entitled, or to practice as such.
PART XII__MISCELLANEOUS
76.__(1) Where the relations between two or more persons
interested in a trademark are such that none of them is entitled, as
between himself and the other, or others, to use it except__
Jointly owned
trademarks
(a) on behalf of both, or all of them; or
(c) in relation to an article with which both or all of them are
connected in the course of trade,
those persons may be registered as joint owners of the
trademark, and this Act shall have effect in relation to any rights
to the use of the trademark vested in those persons as if those
rights had been vested in a single person.
(2) Subject to subsection (1), nothing in this Act shall authorize
the registration of two or more persons who use a trademark
independently, or propose so to use it, as joint owners thereof.
77.__(1) Any application, notice or document authorized or
required under this Act to be lodged, made or given at the
Trademarks Office, the Registrar or any other person, may be
delivered by hand, sent electronically or by registered post.
(2) The Minister may make regulations for the lodging and
authentication of documents sent electronically.
78.__(1) Where under this Act, a fee is payable in respect of__
(a) performance of any act by the Registrar, the Registrar shall
not perform that act until the fee has been paid;
Lodging and
authentication
of documents
Fees
(b) doing of any act by any person other than the Registrar, the
act shall be deemed not to have been done until the fee has been
paid; or
(c) lodging of a document, the document shall be deemed not
to have been lodged until the fee has been paid.
(2) All fees shall be paid at the Trademarks Office in such
manner as the Registrar, with the approval of the Minister, may
prescribe.
79. Any person who is required under this Act to take any oath
or swear to the truth of any affidavit may, in lieu thereof, make an
affirmation or declaration in accordance with the Oaths,
Affirmations and Declarations Act.
Oaths and
affirmation
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