Cap. 597 Art. 47Claim to priority fromotherrelevant overseas application.

(1) The Minister may make regulations conferring on a person who has duly filed an application for protection of a trademark in a country or territory in relation to which the Maltese Government is a party to a treaty, convention, arrangement or engagement for the reciprocal protection of trademarks, a right to priority, for the purpose of registering the same trademark under this Act for any or all of the same goods or services, for such a period as may be specified in the application from the date of filing of that application.

(2) Such regulations may make provisions similar to those contained in article 46 in relation to Convention applications or such other provision as appears to the Minister to be appropriate.