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TRADE MARKS REGULATIONS (AMENDMENT) 1995 NO. 18

STATUTORYF RULES 1995 No. 18

Issued by the Authority of the Minister for Small Business, Customs and Construction

Trade Marks Act 1955

Trade Marks Regulations (Amendment)

Section 147 of the Trade Marks Act 1955 (the Act) empowers the Governor-General to make regulations for the purposes of the Act and for the conduct of any business relating to the Trade Marks Office.

The Statutory Rules amend the Trade Marks Regulations (the Regulations) to update the list of Convention countries declared under subsection 108(1) of the Act.

Details of the regulations made toy these Statutory Rules are as follows:

Regulation 1 sets 23 February 1995 as the commencement day for these Regulations.

Regulation 2 identifies the Trade Marks Regulations as those to be amended.

Regulation 3 substitutes a revised Schedule 4A to the Regulations to include Armenia, Estonia, Guyana, Liberia, and Singapore in the list of Convention countries, with the effect that, by virtue of subregulation 11A(1) of the Regulations, each of those countries is declared under subsection 108(1) of the Act to be a "Convention country" for the purposes of the Act.