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TRADE MARKS ACT 1995 No. 119 of 1995 - SECT 225

Convention countries
225. (1) The regulations may declare a foreign country to be a Convention
country for the purposes of this Act.

(2) If:

   (a)  the regulations declare that, under the terms of a treaty subsisting
        between 2 or more Convention countries, an application made for the
        registration of a trade mark in one of those countries is equivalent
        to an application made in another of those countries; and

   (b)  an application for the registration of a trade mark is made in one of
        those Convention countries; then, for the purposes of this Act, an
        application for the registration of the trade mark is taken to have
        also been made in the other Convention country or in each of the other
        Convention countries (as the case may be).

(3) If:

   (a)  the regulations declare that, under the law of a Convention country,
        an application for the registration of a trade mark made in another
        country is equivalent to an application made in the Convention
        country; and

   (b)  an application for the registration of a trade mark is made in that
        other country; then, for the purposes of this Act, an application for
        the registration of the trade mark is taken to have also been made in
        the Convention country. 


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