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9. (1) Where a portrait of H.E. the President or Her Britannic Majesty Portraits, or of any member of the British Royal Family, or a reproduction of the armorial armorial bearings, insignia, orders of chivalry, decorations or flags of bearings, etc. any country, city, borough, town, place, society, body corporate, institution or person appears on a design, the Registrar, before proceeding to register the design, shall, if he so requires, be furnished with a consent to the registration and use of such portrait or reproduction from such official or other person as appears to the Registrar to be entitled to give consent, and in default of such consent he may refuse to register the design. (2) Where the name or portrait of a living person appears on a design, the Registrar shall be furnished, if he so requires, with consent from such person before proceeding to register the design. In the case of a person recently dead, the Registrar may call for consent from his legal representative before proceeding with the registration of a design on which the name or portrait of the deceased person appears. 10. There shall be excluded from registration under the Act designs to Designs be applied to any of the following articles, namely: excluded from (a) works of sculpture other than casts or models used or intended to registration be used as models or patterns to be multiplied by any industrial process; under section 7 (3) (b) wall plaques and medals; and (c) printed matter primarily of a literary or artistic character, including bookjackets, calendars, certificates, coupons, dressmaking patterns, greetings cards, leaflets, maps, plans, postcards, stamps, trade advertisements, trade forms, and cards, transfers and the like. 11. (1) An application for registration under section thirteen shall Convention contain a declaration that the application in a convention country upon applications which the applicant relies is the first application made in a convention country in respect of the design, whether by the applicant or by any person of whom he claims to be the legal representative or assignee, and shall specify the convention country in which such foreign application was made, or is to be deemed under subsection (3) of section thirteen to have been made, and the official date thereof. (2) In addition to the representations or specimens lodged with every convention application, there shall be lodged with the application or

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