Patents and Companies Registration
Agency
[No. 15 of 2010 109
GOVERNMENT OF ZAMBIA
ACT
No. 15 of 2010
Date of Assent: 13th April, 2010
ENTITLED
An Act to establish the Patents and Companies Registration
Agency; provide for the functions of the Agency; transfer
from the Government to the Agency the functions and the
powers of the offices of the Registrar of Companies,
Registrar of Registered Business Names, Registrar of
Patents, Registrar of Trade Marks and Registrar of
Registered Designs; and provide for matters connected
with, or incidental to, the foregoing.
[16th April, 2010
ENACTED by the Parliament of Zambia.
Enactment
PART I
P RELIMINARY
This Act may be cited as the Patents and Companies
Registration Agency Act, 2010, and shall come into operation on
such date as the Minister may, by statutory instrument, appoint.
(1) In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires—
"Agency" means the Patents and Companies Registration
Agency established under section three;
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commencement
Interpretation