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Government Gazette 23 March 2012
Act No. 1, 2012
No. 4907
INDUSTRIAL PROPERTY ACT, 2012
Deceiving officials
233.
Any person who –
(a)
for the purpose of deceiving the Registrar or the Tribunal or any staff
member or official in the administration of the provisions of this Act;
or
(b)
for the purpose of procuring or influencing the doing or omission of
anything in relation to this Act or any matter thereunder,
makes a false statement or representation knowing the same to be false, commits an
offence and on conviction is liable to a fine not exceeding N$ 5 000 or to imprisonment
for a period not exceeding 12 months or to both such fine and imprisonment.
PART 5
GENERAL
Application of international conventions
234.
(1)
For purposes of this Part, the term “international convention”
means any one of the following international or regional instruments, namely –
(a)
African Regional Intellectual Property Organisation (ARIPO) and the
Banjul Protocol and Harare Protocol adopted by ARIPO;
(b)
Locarno Agreement on the International Classification for Industrial
Designs;
(c)
Nice Agreement on the International Classification of Goods and
Services;
(d)
Madrid Agreement Concerning the International Registration of Marks
and the Madrid Protocol adopted under that Agreement;
(e)
Paris Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property;
(f)
Patent Co-operation Treaty;
(g)
the Hague Agreement Concerning the International Deposit of
Industrial Designs; and
(h)
any international agreement or convention which the Minister by notice
in the Gazette declares, subject to Article 63(2)(e) of the Namibian
Constitution, to be an international convention for the purposes of this
Act.
(2)
In applying the provisions of this Act, the version of any international
convention which is applicable for the purposes of this Act is that version of such
convention and of any regulations issued thereunder which is in operation at the date of
the commencement of this Act as contemplated in section 242.