Trade Marks Act, 1996

Amendment and adaptation of existing statutes.

102.—(1) In any enactment passed before, and in any provision made under any enactment before, the commencement of this Act, any reference to trade marks or registered trade marks, within the meaning of the Act of 1963, shall, unless the context otherwise requires, be construed after the commencement of this Act as a reference to trade marks or registered trade marks, within the meaning of this Act.

(2) In section 24 of the Consumer Information Act, 1978

(a) for the words “the Trade Marks Act, 1963 ”, in each place where they occur except in paragraph (c), there shall be substituted “the Trade Marks Act, 1996”; and

(b) in paragraph (c) for the words “a person registered under section 36 of the Trade Marks Act, 1963 as a registered user of a trade mark” there shall be substituted “in the case of a registered trade mark, a person licensed to use it”.