The Laws of Zambia
(3) The Registrar shall, upon application for the purpose made in Form No. 26,
accompanied in duplicate by a representation or specimen of a design applied to an
article, cause a search to be made among registered designs and state whether the
design as applied to that article appears to be identical with, or closely to resemble, any
registered design applied to such article of which the copyright is still existing.
30.
Copies of any entry in the register, or copies of, or extracts from, designs,
representations, specimens and other public documents in the Office, or of or from
registers and other records kept there, certified by the Registrar, may be furnished by the
Registrar upon receipt of a request therefor in Form No. 27 from any person who, if the
Registrar thinks fit so to require, can show an interest in the entry, matter or thing to his
satisfaction. The Registrar shall not be obliged to include in the certificate a copy of any
representation or specimen, unless he is furnished by the applicant with a copy thereof
suitable for the purpose.
Certified copies of
entries, etc.
31. An application under section thirty for a copy of a certificate of registration shall
be made in Form No. 28 and shall be accompanied by evidence setting out fully and
verifying the circumstances in which the original certificate of registration was lost or
destroyed or cannot be produced.
Copy of certificate of
registration
32. (1) Where the Registrar has given a direction under subsection (2) of section
eleven prohibiting or restricting the publication of a design, the representation or specimen
of the design shall not be open to public inspection while such direction remains in force.
Designs not open to
public inspection
(2) The period under subsection (2) of section twenty-seven during which a design
shall not be open to inspection, except as provided in that section, shall be, as regards
designs to be applied to textile articles, three years and as regards designs to be applied
to wallpaper and lace, two years from the date of the registration thereof.
PART VI
MISCELLANEOUS
33. The fees to be paid in respect of the registration of designs and applications
therefor, and in respect of other matters relating to designs arising under the Act, shall be
those prescribed in the First Schedule.
Prescribed fees
34. The forms set out in the Second Schedule shall be used in all cases to which
they are applicable and may be modified as directed by the Registrar.
Prescribed forms
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