(2)
50.
If any person disposes of any article on which is stamped, engraved or
impressed or to which is otherwise applied the word “design” or
“registered design” or any other word expressing or implying that—
(a)
there is a registered design in respect of the article; or
(b)
the article is the subject of an application for registration of a
design, or to which any marking is applied in any manner so
expressing or implying, he shall be deemed for the purposes of
this section to represent that there is a registered design in
respect of the article or that the article is the subject of an
application for registration of a design.
(3)
The provisions of subsection (2) shall not apply to a person who
disposes of articles in good faith in the ordinary course of trade,
provided, when called upon to do so, he discloses the identity of the
person from whom he acquired the article in question.
(4)
Any person who is of the opinion that he is prejudiced by a
representation referred to in subsection (1) (a) or (b), may apply to the
court for an interdict against the continuation of that representation.
Documents may be sent by post.
Any application, notice or document authorized or required in terms of this Act
to be lodged, made or given at the designs office or to the registrar or any
other person, may be delivered by hand or sent through the post.
51.
52.
Address for service.
(1)
With every application, notice or other document authorized or
required in terms of this Act to be lodged or given, the applicant or
other person concerned shall furnish in the prescribed manner an
address within the Republic as an address for service, which shall for
the purposes of this Act be deemed to be the address of such
applicant or other person, and all documents in relation to such
application, notice or other document may be served by leaving them
at or sending them to such address for service.
(2)
Any address for service may be changed by notice in the prescribed
manner.
Calculation of periods of time.
(1)
Where any period of time is specified by this Act as running from the
performing of any act, it shall be reckoned as commencing on the day
next following the performing of that act.
(2)
Whenever the last day on which, in terms of this Act, any act may or is
required to be performed or any document may or is required to be
lodged, falls on a day on which the designs office is closed, that act
may be performed or that document may be lodged on the next
following day on which the designs office is open for the transaction of
business.