Cap. 597 ст. 56Registration.

(1) Where an application has been accepted as eligible for registration, the Comptroller shall register the trademark, unless it appears to him, having regard to matters coming to his notice after he accepted the application, that it was accepted in error.

(2) A trademark shall not be registered and the application shall be deemed to be withdrawn unless any fee prescribed in respect of any action taken before the registration is paid within the prescribed period.

(3) A trademark when registered shall be registered as of the date of filing of the application for registration, and that date shall be deemed for the purposes of this Act to be the date of registration.

(4) On the registration of a trademark the Comptroller shall publish the registration in the prescribed manner and issue to the applicant a certificate of registration:

Provided that when an opposition has been received within the prescribed time the Comptroller shall only publish such registration in the event the said opposition has been rejected:

Provided further that if more than one opposition has been received and one or more oppositions have been accepted, such publication shall not take place.

(5) Notwithstanding sub-article (4) above the Comptroller shall publish the registration of a trademark where an agreement has been reached following an opposition that there shall be an amendment to the goods or services in respect of which the trademark applied for is to be registered:

Provided that such registration shall take place only when such amendment has been effected by the applicant.