522 No. 22 of 2016] Industrial Design who has died, become bankrupt or assigned their estate; or (d) person recognised by law, representing a child, a person of unsound mind or a person with a legal disability; “licensee” means a person who has been permitted by a proprietor of a design to exploit the protected design in accordance with the terms and conditions specified in a licence contract; “novelty” means the newness of a design in terms of features or appearance; “officer” means an employee of the Agency; “Paris Convention” means the Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property signed at Paris on March 20, 1883; “practitioner” has the same meaning assigned to it by the Legal Practitioners Act; “product” means any industrial or handicraft item other than a computer program and includes packaging, getup, graphic symbols, typographic typefaces and parts intended to be assembled into a complex product; “proprietor” means a legal owner of a design which was not exploited anywhere else in the world before it was exploited in Zambia or in a conventional country and includes the creator of the design; “Register” means the Register of Designs established and maintained in accordance with section ten; “Registrar” means the person appointed as Registrar in accordance with the Patents and Companies Registration Agency Act, 2010; “repealed Act” means the Registered Designs Act, 1958; “release date” means the date on which the design was first made available to the public in Zambia or elsewhere with the consent of the proprietor or any predecessor in title; and “WIPO” means the World Intellectual Property Organisation established on July 14, 1967. Act to bind Republic 3. This Act shall bind the Republic.