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TRADE MARKS REGULATIONS (AMENDMENT) 1993 NO. 343

STATUTORY RULES 1993 No. 343

Issued by the Authority of the Minister for Science and Small Business

Trade Marks Act 1955

Trade Marks Regulations (Amendment)

The Statutory Rules amend the Trade Marks Regulations (the Regulations) to update the list of Convention countries and make minor technical and drafting amendments.

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

Regulation 1 identifies the Trade Marks Regulations as those to be amended.

Regulation 2 makes a number of changes to the official fees set out in Schedule 2 to the Regulations. Subregulation 2.1 substitutes revised fee item 1 which has combined previous fee items 1 and 2. Subregulation 2.2 omits fee item 2.

Subregulation 2.3 amends paragraph (a) of fee item 8 in Schedule 2 to the Regulations to make it clear that a fee applies for lodging an application for a hearing under regulation 58.

Subregulation 2.4 amends paragraph (a) of fee item 13 in Schedule 2 to the Regulations to make it clear that that fee applies for each month or part of a month of extension of time sought by the applicant.

Regulation 3 substitutes a revised Schedule 4A to the Regulations that includes Belarus, Bolivia, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Kazakhstan, Latvia, Moldova, the Russian Federation, the Slovak Republic, Slovenia, Ukraine and Uzbekistan in the list of Convention countries declared for the purposes of section 108 of the Trade Marks Act 1955. The revised Schedule 4A also omits Czechoslovakia and the Soviet Union, as they ceased to be declared Convention countries.