Trade Marks Act, 1963

Registration of marks by Ministers.

46.—(1) A Minister of State may, subject to this Act, procure the registration of a trade mark or of a certification trade mark and a Minister by whom such registration is procured shall be, and shall be registered as, the proprietor thereof for all purposes under this Act.

(2) A Minister of State may procure the registration in any register maintained in any place outside the State of a trade mark (whether registered or not registered under subsection (1) of this section) if and so far as and subject to such conditions as such registration is permitted by the law regulating such register and in any such case may procure himself to be entered in such register as the proprietor of such trade mark.