The Laws of Zambia (a) the design was not, at the date of the registration thereof, new or original; (b) the design, at the time when it was registered, was a corresponding design in relation to an artistic work in which copyright subsisted under the written law relating to copyright; (c) by reason of a previous use of that artistic work, the design would not have been registrable under this Act but for subsection (2) of section twelve; or (d) the copyright in that work under the written law relating to copyright has expired; or on any other ground on which the Registrar could have refused to register the design; and the Registrar may make such order on the application as he thinks fit. (3) An appeal shall lie from any order of the Registrar under subsection (2). (As amended by G.N. No. 187 of 1964) PART VII Evidence of certain entries and documents FUNCTIONS OF REGISTRAR IN RELATION TO CERTAIN EVIDENCE, DOCUMENTS AND POWERS 26. (1) A certificate purporting to be signed by the Registrar and certifying that any entry which he is authorised by or under this Act to make has or has not been made, or that any other thing which he is so authorised to do has or has not been done, shall be prima facie evidence of the matters so certified. (2) A copy of any entry in the register or of any representation, specimen or document kept in the Designs Office or an extract from the register or any such document, purporting to be certified by the Registrar and to be sealed with the seal of the Patent Office, shall be admitted in evidence without further proof and without production of the original. 27. (1) Subject to the provisions of this section and to any regulation made by the Minister in pursuance of subsection (3) of section eleven, the representation or specimen of a design registered under this Act shall be open to inspection at the Designs Office on and after the day on which the certificate of registration is issued. (2) In the case of a design registered in respect of an article of any class prescribed for the purposes of this subsection, no representation or specimen of the design lodged in pursuance of the application shall, until the expiration of such period after the day on which the certificate of registration is issued as may be prescribed in relation to articles of that class, be open to inspection at the Designs Office except by the registered proprietor, a person authorised in writing by the registered proprietor, or a person authorised by the Registrar, the High Court or Supreme Court: Copyright Ministry of Legal Affairs, Government of the Republic of Zambia Inspection of registered designs