LAWS OF MALAWI Trade marks 35. Cap. 49:01 (a) If the Registrar is satisfied that a body corporate is about to be constituted and that the applicant intends to assign the relation to those goods by the corporation; or (b) If the application is accompanied by an application for the registration of a person as a registered user of the trade mark and the Registrar is satisfied that the proprietor intends it to be used by that person in relation to those goods and the Registrar is also satisfied that that person will be registered as a registered user thereof immediately after the registration of the trade mark. (2) Section 31 shall have effect, in relation to a trade mark registered under the power conferred by subsection (1) as if for the reference, in section 31(1)(a) to intention on the part of an applicant for registration that a trade mark should be used by him there were substituted a reference to intention on his part that it should be used by the corporation or registered user concerned. (3) When a trade mark is registered in respect of any goods under the power conferred by subsection (1) in the name of an applicant who relies on intention to assign to a corporation as aforesaid, then, unless within such period as may be prescribed or within such further period not exceeding six months as the Registrar may on application being made to him in the prescribed manner allow, the corporation has been registered as the proprietor of the trade mark in respect of those goods, the registration shall cease to have effect in respect thereof at the expiration of that period, and the Registrar shall amend the register accordingly. (4) An appeal shall lie from any decision of the Registrar under this section. (1) Where under this Act use a registered trade mark is required to be proved for any purpose, the Registrar, or the Tribunal in the event of an appeal from a decision of the Registrar, may, if and so far as the Registrar or the Tribunal thinks right, accept use of an associated registered trade mark, or of the trade mark with additions or alterations not substantially affecting its identity, as an equivalent for the use required to be proved. (2) The use of the whole of a registered trade mark shall for the purposes of this Act, be deemed to be also a use of any registered trade mark, being a part thereof, registered in the name of the same proprietor by virtue of section 26(1). Use of one of associated or substantially identical trade marks equivalent to use of another.