Section 71: Applications for registration of certification trade marks.

The Trade Marks Act, 1999Central Act · Act 47 of 1999

(1) An application for the registration of a mark as a certification trade mark shall be made to the Registrar in the prescribed manner by the person proposed to be registered as the proprietor thereof, and accompanied by a draft for the regulations to be deposited under section 74.

(2) Subject to the provisions of section 70, the provisions of sections 18, 19 and 22 shall apply in relation to an application under this section as they apply in relation to an application under section 18, subject to the modification that references therein to acceptance of an application shall be construed as references to authorisation to proceed with an application.

(3) In dealing under the said provisions with an application under this section, the [Registrar or the High Court, as the case may be,] shall have regard to the like considerations, so far as relevant, as if the application were applications under section 18 and to any other considerations relevant to applications under this section, including the desirability of securing that a certification trade mark shall comprise some indication that it is a certification trade mark.

Where this provision sits

Act	The Trade Marks Act, 1999
Section	71
Marginal note	Applications for registration of certification trade marks.
Jurisdiction	Central
Status	In force as published by the source

How this provision has been amended

Taken from the footnotes printed with the provision by the source. Where a footnote names the amending instrument, it is quoted as printed.

substituted, Act 33 of 2021. . Subs. by Act 33 of 2021, s. 21, for “tribunal” (w.e.f. 4-4-2021).

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