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(3) If Parliament resolves within 30 days after any such tariff or regulation has been laid on the table
thereof in accordance with law, that any item of the tariff or that the regulation be disallowed, such item or
regulation shall thereupon become of no effect, without prejudice to the validity of anything done in the
meanwhile thereunder or to the power to make anew tariff or regulation.
70. Transitional provisions
(1) Subject to the provisions of section 3, and except as expressly otherwise provided in this Act, the
validity of the original entry of a trade mark on the register of trade marks existing at the commencement of
this Act shall be determined in accordance with the laws in force at the date of such entry.
(2) A trade mark which has been validly registered in terms of the provisions of section 53 of the
repealed Act shall, from the date of commencement of this Act, be deemed to be a trade mark registered in
terms of this Act, but shall not be removed from the register in terms of the provisions of paragraph (4) of
section 10 or of section 27 within a period of 10 years from the date of commencement of this Act.
71. Repeal of laws
The following laws are hereby repealed:
(1) The Trade Marks Act, 1963 (Act No. 62 of 1963);
(2) the Trade Marks Amendment Act, 1971 (Act No. 46 of 1971);
(3) the Trade Marks Amendment Act, 1979 (Act No. 37 of 1979);
(4) the expression “62 of 1963”, and the words and expressions opposite thereto, appearing in the
First Schedule to the Transfer of Powers and Duties of the State President Act, 1986 (Act
No. 97 of 1986);
(5) the Trade Marks Amendment Act, 1991 (Act No. 65 of 1991).
72. Short title and commencement
This Act shall be called the Trade Marks Act, 1993, and shall come into operation on a date fixed by
the State President by proclamation in the Gazette.
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