The Director General of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) presents his compliments to the Minister for Foreign Affairs and has the honor to notify him of the deposit by the Government of Malaysia, on June 23, 1988, of its instrument of accession to the Paris Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property of March 20, 1883, as revised at Stockholm on July 14, 1967.
Malaysia has not heretofore been a member of the International Union for the Protection of Industrial Property ("Paris Union"), founded by the Paris Convention.
The Paris Convention, as revised at Stockholm on July 14, 1967, and amended on October 2, 1979, will, in accordance with Article 21(3) of the said Convention, enter into force, with respect to Malaysia, on the date indicated by the Government of Malaysia, that is, on January 1, 1989. On that date, Malaysia will become a member of the Paris Union.
Malaysia will belong to Class VII for the purpose of establishing its contribution towards the budget of the Paris Union.
June 24, 1988