193 [No. 26 of 1987 Patents (Amendment) GOVERNMENT OF ZAMRTA ACT No. 26 of 1987 Date of A886nt: 28th December, 1987. An Act to amend the Patents Act [31st December, 1987 ENACTED by the Parliament of Zambia. Enactment 1. This Act may be cited as the Patents (Amendment) Act, 1987, and shall be read as one with the Patents Act, in this Act referred to as the principal Act. 2. The principal Act is amended by the insertion immediately after section ten of the following new section: Title Cap. 692 lOA. (1) In this section­ (a) "ARIPO" means the African Regioual Industrial Inll6rtlon Property Organisation, formerly known as the of ~ct.ion Industrial Property Organisation for English- ~~TPO Speaking Ardeu (ESAltll'U). which WU8 patente established, under the former name, by an agreement adopted at Lusaka on 9th December, 1976; and (b) "ARIPO Protocol" means the Protocol on Patent.s and Industrial Designs within the Framework of ARIPO, adopted at Harare on lOth December, 1982. (2) Where a. patent has been granted by ARIPO under section 3 (7) of the ARIPO Protocol and the Registrar has not objected, under section 3 (6) of the Protocol, to the patent having effect in Zambia, the patent shall for all purposes be deemed to have boou granted under this Act. (3) A patent shall not be deemed to have been granted under, this section if, under section 3 (6) of the' Al{,lPO Protocol, the Registrar objects to its having effect in Zambia. Sm!lle copied of tM.8 Act may 06 OOta·i"ud fr01~1 the Govorl.mm,t Prh~. P.O. J]03: 30136, Lusaka. Prwe 20,..