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Trade Marks

CHAPTER 401
TRADE MARKS

Federal Ac/s

An Act to make provision relating to the registration of trade
marks and for other purposes incidental thereto.
[1st April, 1958]

140(1957
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497 of 1964

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PART I

175 of 1965
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of 1980 Ac/
No. 13 of
1994

PRELIMINARY

1.

This Act may be cited as the Trade Marks Act.

2. (1) In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires-

Short title
Interpretation

"assignment" means assignment by act of the parties concerned;
"Convention" means the Union Convention of Paris, dated the
20th March, 1883, for the Protection of Industrial Property,
revised at Brussels on the 14th December, 1900, at
Washington on the 2nd June, 1911, at The Hague on the 6th
November, 1925, and at London on the 2nd June, 1934, and
any revision thereof to which the *former Federation of
Rhodesia and Nyasaland or the former Protectorate of
Northern Rhodesia may have acceded or to which the
***Republic may accede in terms of section seven of the
Patents Act;

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"convention country", in relation to any provision of this Act,
means a country (including any colony, protectorate or ter­
ritory subject to the authority or under the suzerainty of that
country, or any territory over which a mandate or trustee­
ship is exercised) which has been declared to be a conven­
tion country in terms of section seven of the Patents Act;

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"examiner" means an examiner appointed under sectionfive;
"legal practitioner" means a person admitted or otherwise enti­
tled to practise as a barrister and solicitor in terms of the
Legal Practitioners Act;
"limitations" means any limitations of the exclusive right to the

use of a trade mark given by the registration of a person as

proprietor thereof, including limitations of that right as to

mode of use, as to use in relation to goods to be sold or oth­

erwise traded in in any place within Zambia or as to use in

relation to goods to be exported to any market outside

Zambia;

*Acceded with effect from 15t April, 1958. (F.G.N. No. 39 of 1958.)
u*Acceded with effect from 24th October, 1964. (G.N. No. 1751 of 1965.)

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