Transitional Provisions
22.—(1) In this section —
“appropriate Act” means—
(a) the Industrial Designs Act [Chapter 26:02]; or
(b) the Patents Act [Chapter 26:03]; or
(c) the Trade Marks Act [Chapter 26:04];
“fixed date” means the date fixed in terms of subsection (2) of section one as the date of
commencement of this Act;
“Patents Tribunal” means the Patents Tribunal established by section 70 of the Patents Act
[Chapter 26:03].
(2) Every person who, immediately before the fixed date, held office as—
(a) President of the Patents Tribunal; or
(b) registrar or officer of the Patents Tribunal;
shall hold office on and after that date as President of the Tribunal, Registrar or other officer, as the case
may be, in all respects as if he had been appointed in terms of section four or fourteen;
(3) Any rules which, immediately before the fixed date, regulated appeals and references to and other
matters before the Patents Tribunal in terms of an appropriate Act shall continue in force on and after the
fixed date as if they had been made in terms of section twelve to govern similar appeals and references to
and other matters before the Tribunal in terms of any Act referred to in subsection (1) of section three.
(4) Any appeal, review, reference or other matter which was lodged with the Patents Tribunal in terms of
an appropriate Act and, immediately before the fixed date, was pending before the Patents Tribunal shall
be continued before the Tribunal on and after the fixed date in terms of the appropriate Act concerned and
this Act.
(5) Any appeal which was filed with the Supreme Court against a decision of the Patents Tribunal in
terms of an appropriate Act and which, immediately before the fixed date, had not been finally determined
shall be determined on and after the fixed date as if it were an appeal against a decision of the Tribunal in
terms of Part VI.