Registered DesignB
[No. 15 of 1987
191
(Amendment)
GOVln~N:MENT Ol~
ZAMB[A
ACT
No.
~5
of 1987
Da.te of Assent: 28th December, 1987
An Act to amend the Registered Designs Act
[ 31st December, 1987
ENAarED by the Parliament of Zambia.
Enactment
1. This Act may be cited as the Registered Designs (Amend
ment) Act, 1987, and shall be read as one with the Registered
Designs Act, in this Act referred to a,s the principal Act.
Cap. 696
Tltlo
2. '1'he principal Act is amended by the insertion
irn mediately after section thi"leen of the following new section:
13A. (1) In this section-
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of II6OMon
13A
ARIPO
, industrial
(a) "ARIPO" mefLT1S the African Regional Industrial doetgna
Proporty Orgnniflll.Lioll, formerly known
1\8
the
Industrial Property Organisation for English
Speaking Africa (ESARIPO), which was
established, under the former name, by an
agreement adopted at Lusaka on 9th December,
1976; and
(b) "ARIPO Protocol" means the Protocol on
Patents and Industrial Designs within the
Framework of ARIPO, adopted at Harare on
10th December, 1982.
(2) Where an industrial design has been registered by
ARIPO under section 4 (7) of tho ARIPO Protocol and
the Registrar has not objected, under section 4 (3) of
the Protocol, to the industrial design having effect in
Zambia, the design shall for all purposes be deemed to
have been registered under this Act.
(3) An industrial design shall not he deemed to have
been registered under this section if, under section 4 (3)
of the ARIPO Protocol, the Registrar objects to its
havillg c(re(~L ill ~IUllbia,.
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