Trade Marks [CAP. 401 21 to be deemed to be the date of registration, shall, as respects a trade mark registered under this Act with the benefit of any enactment relating to international arrangements, have effect subject to the pro­ visions of that enactment. (2) On the registration of a trade mark, the Registrar shall issue to the applicant a certificate in the prescribed form of the registration thereof sealed with the seal of the Patent Office. (3) Where registration of a trade mark 'is not completed within twelve months from the date of the application by reason of default on the part of the applicant, the Registrar may, after giving notice of the non-completion to the applicant in writing in the prescribed man­ ner, treat the application as abandoned, unless it is completed within the time specified in that behalf in the notice. (As amended by Act No. 17 of 1980) 25. (1) The registration of a trade mark shall be for a period of seven years, but may be renewed from time to time in accordance with the provisions of this section. (2) The Registrar shall, on application made by the registered pro:" prietor of a trade mark in the prescribed manner and within the pre­ scribed period, renew the registration of the trade mark for a period of fourteen years from the date of expiration of the original registra­ tion or of the last renewal of registration, which date is in this section referred to as "the expiration of the last registration". (3) At the prescribed time before the expiration of the last regis­ tration of a trade mark, the Registrar shall send notice in the pre­ scribed manner to the registered proprietor of the date of expiration . and the conditions as to payment of fees and otherwise upon which a renewal of registration may be obtained, and, if at the expiration of the time prescribed in that behalf those conditions have not been duly complied with, the Registrar may remove the trade mark from the '~fegister, subject to such conditions, if any, as to its restoration to the 'register as may be prescribed. (4) The Registrar shall remove from the register any trade mark which immediately before the commencement of this Act was regis­ tered in terms of any law relating to trade marks and which, accord­ ing to the law of the registering country, as defined by any such law, ceased to be a valid registration. (5) Where a trade mark has been removed from the register for non-payment of the fee for renewal, it shall, nevertheless, for the pur­ pose of any application for the registration of a trade mark during one year ne~t after the date of the removal, be deemed to be a trade mark that is already on the register: Duration and renewal of registration