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[CAP. 401 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 1,7 (;r 1960 2 or 1962 (;01'1''''''/1('11/ NOIiet'.I· JR6 of 1964 497 of 1964 Statutorv Ills/rumen/ PART I 175 of 1965 Ac/ No. 17 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; Cap. 400 "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; Cap. 400 "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.) Cap. 30 7

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