Industrial and Commercial Property (Protection) (Neuchatel Agreement) Act, 1947

Restriction of section 111 of Principal Act.

10.—(1) The operation of section 111 of the Principal Act (which relates to non-user of registered trade marks) is hereby suspended until the 1st day of July, 1949.

(2) In the application of subsection (1) of section 111 of the Principal Act the period beginning on the 3rd day of September, 1939, and ending on the 30th day of June, 1947, shall be disregarded.

(3) Where an application under section 111 of the Principal Act to take a trade mark off the register in respect of any of the goods for which it is registered is made before the 30th day of June, 1952, the application may be granted on the ground that there has been no bona fide user of the trade mark in connection with such goods during a composite period equal to five years comprising—

(i) the period beginning on the 1st day of July, 1947, and ending on the day of the application, and

(ii) a period immediately preceding the 3rd day of September, 1939.