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Registered [No. 16 of 1980
Designs (Amendment)
GOVEl"tNl\lENT OF ZAMBIA
ACT
No. 16 of 1980
Date of Assent: 21st Docornber, 1980
An Act to amend the Registered Designs Act
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ENACTED by the Parliament of Zambia,
1. (l) This Act may be cited as the Registered Designs (Amendment) Act, 1080, and shall be road as one with the Registered Designs Act, hereinafter referred to as the principal Act.
Ena.otment
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Amendment of section 2
Amendmont of section 16
Amendment of section 18
Amendment of section 10
*1'h18Act sh..Ucome into oporntion on ~lIch (t.~t.u U~ the lIIilli"tcr m.•y. hy stututory insta-uincut, appoillt..
Singlc copies oj 'hi.• Act mo.!1 "" obhilto{ [rom th« t.orernn.cn : Printer,
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Amendmont of .eotion 21
Amondmont of seotion 22
Amendment of section 24
Amendment of sootion 27
Repeal nnd roplnoomont of sootion 33
Power of RegistrAr to award oosts
Repeal and roplaooment of section 35
High Court to honr appeals
Repeal of sootiona 36 and 37
Ropoaland replnoement of aootion 38
Rules of eourt
8. Section twentY10ur of the principal Aot is amendod
9, Section lwentll-ReVCn of tho principal Aot is amended in subseotion (2) by the deletion of .. 'I'ribuuc! or by the Court" and the substitution therefor of" High Court or by the Supreme Court".
10, The principal Act is amended by the repeal of aeotion thirty-three and the substitution thorefor of' the following section:
33. In all proceedings before the Registra.r under this Act. the Registrar shall have power to award to any pa.rty such costs as he may consider reasonable and to direct how and by what parties they are to bo paid. and any costs so awarded shall be taxed by tho High Court and payment thereof may be enforced in the same manner as 1£ they were costs allowed by the High Court,
11. The principal Act is amended by the repeal of section thirtY-five and the substitution therefor of the following aeotion:
35. 'Vhore this Act provides for an appeal from 0. decision of tho Registrar, such appeal shall be made to the High Court.
38. The· Chief -Iustioe may. by statutory instrument, make rules regulating the practice and procedure relating to nppeals or references to the High Court or the Supreme Court. as the case may be. as to
(a) the time within which an~' requirement of the rules is to be complied with;
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of section 40
40. When any matter to be decided by the Registrar References under this Act appears tu him to involve a point of law or to High to be of unusual importance or complexity, he may, aftor RCou~ttbY
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grvmg notice to t e pnrtios, reror sue 1 matter to t 10 Ig
Court for a decision and shall thereafter, in relation to such
matter, act in accordance with the decision of tho High
Court or any decision su bstituted therefor on appeal to
the Supreme Court.
16. Section forty-one of the principal Act is amended by the Amendment ofsection 41
deletion of the words" Tribunal or Court" wherever they occur
and the substitution therefor of "High Court or Supreme
Court".
17. The principal Act is amended by the repeal of section Repeal and forty-four and the substitution therefor of the following section: replacement
ofscction 44
44. (1) When a party to proceedings before the Regis-Security for . idt tid Z bithI), d costsand
t1'0.1' IS resr en OU Sl e ~u.m ia, e Rogistrar mayor er taxation of such party to give security, within such time as may be costs directed, for the costs of the proceedings,
18. Section forty-five of the principal Act is amended by the Amendment deletion of the word "Tribunal " wherever it occurs and the (If section 45 substitution therefor of "High Court".
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AppKla to f!uprelDo
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Amendmont of lOo~iDn 110
Amendment of BOo~ion 118
ll.epoalor lootlon 00
19. 'I.'ho principal Aot is amondod by tho repeal of sootion forty-ria; and tho subatitublon thorofor of the following sootlon:
46. Any pa.rty to, any proceedings before the High Court may appeal in nocordnnoo with rules made under this Pa.rt from any order or doolsion of that oourt to tho Supreme Court.
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