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16. The application for registration of an industrial design who wishes to benefit from priority of an earlier application filed in another country shall be required to attach to his application a written statement indicating the date and number of the earlier application, the country in which it was filed and the name of the applicant, and he shall forward, a period of three months from the date of the later application, a copy of the earlier application certified as being correct by the responsible authority in the country where such application was filed. 17. An application for registration of an industrial design, shall not be accepted except after payment of such fees as may be prescribed in accordance with the rules. 18. (1) The Industrial Designs Office shall examine the application so as to make sure that it confirms with section 7 (2), 15, 16 and 17. (2) If the provisions of sections 7 (2), 15 and 17 are not complied with, the Industrial Designs Office shall refuse to register the industrial design, provided that priority may not be questioned. 19. (1) When the examination provided for in section 18 shows that the application has satisfied the requirements of sections 7 (2), 15 and 17, then the industrial design shall be registered in accordance with the application, and without further examination and in particular without examination as to whether or not the registration contravenes section 7 (1). (2) If the examination provided for in section 18 shows that the requirements of section 16 have been complied with, the Industrial Designs Office shall record the priority claimed for the registration. 20. (1) The Industrial Designs Office shall establish a registry for industrial designs, which shall be recorded in chronological order. All the details of every design, required by this Act to be registered, shall be recorded therein. (2) Subject to the provisions of section 22 relating to wax-sealed applications, the industrial designs register shall contain a true copy of the industrial design in which the registration number, the name, and address of the registered owner are shown. If his address is abroad it shall contain his fixed address together with the date of both the application and the registration. If there is any claim for priority it shall be noted together with the number, the date of the claim, the country where the claim was presented and the basis for the claim for priority and reference to the different stages of production according to the provisions of section 15 (1) (d) and finally the name and address of the true designer if his name is required for registration.

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