26 CAP. 401]
Trade Marks
dance with the provisions of subsection (I) shall not be admitted in
evidence in any court in proof of the title to a trade mark unless the
court otherwise directs.
PART VII
USE AND NON-USE
Removal from
register and
imposition of
limitation
31. (l) Subject to the provisions of section thirty-two, a regis
tered trade mark may be taken off the register in respect of any of the
goods in respect of which it is registered on application by any per
son aggrieved to the High Court or, at the option of the applicant and
subject to the provisions of section sixty-four, to the Registrar, on the
ground either
(a) that the trade mark was registered without any bona fide
intention on the part of the applicant for registration that it
should be used in relation to those goods by him and that
there has in fact been no bona fide use of the trade mark in
relation to those goods by any proprietor thereof for the
time being up to the date one month before the date of the
application; or
(b) that up to the date one month before the date of the appli
cation a continuous period of five years or longer elapsed
during which the trade mark was a registered trade mark
and during which there was no bona fide use thereof in
relation to those goods by any proprietor thereof for the
time being:
Provided that (except where the applicant has been permitted
under subsection (2) of section seventeen to register an identical or
nearly resembling trade mark in respect of the goods in question or
where the High Court or the Registrar, as the case may be, is of opin
ion that he might properly be permitted so to register such a trade
mark), the High Court or the Registrar may refuse an application
made under paragraph (a) or (b) in relation to any goods, if it is
shown that there has been, before the relevant date or during the rel
evant period, as the case may be, bona fide use of the trade mark by
any proprietor thereof for the time being in relation to goods of the
same description, being goods in respect of which the trade mark is
registered.
(2) Where. in relation to any goods in respect of which a trade
mark is registered
(a)
the matters referred to in paragraph (h) of subsection (I) are
shown so far as regards non-use of the trade mark in rela
tion to goods to be sold or otherwise traded in in a particu
lar place in Zambia (otherwise than for export from
Zambia) or in relation to goods to be exported to a particu
lar market outside Zambia; and
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