46 Effect of an international registration Invalidation of international registration Recordings in the International Register Collective and certification marks Replacement Trademarks No. 2 14.__(1) An international registration designating Malawi shall have the same effect, as from the date of the international registration, as if an application for the registration of the mark had been filed directly with the Registrar under this Act. (2) If __ (a) no refusal is notified by the Registrar to the International Bureau in accordance with the Madrid Protocol and the Common Regulations; (d) a refusal has been so notified but has been subsequently withdrawn; or (c) a statement of grant of protection is sent by the Registrar, the protection of the mark in Malawi shall be the same as if the mark had been registered directly by the Registrar on the date of the international registration. 15. Where the effect of an international registration is invalidated in Malawi and the invalidation is no longer subject to appeal, the Registrar shall notify the International Bureau in accordance with the relevant provisions of the Madrid Protocol and the Common Regulations: Provided that the Registrar is aware of that decision. 16. Any recording made in the International Register in respect of an international registration, shall, to the extent that it applies to Malawi as a designated Contracting Party, have the same effect as if it had been recorded by the Registrar in the Register. 17. Where an international registration designating Malawi is a collective mark or a certification mark, the rules governing the use of such collective mark or certification mark shall be submitted directly, by the holder of that international registration, to the Registrar, within the prescribed time limit. 18.__(1) Where__ (a) a mark registered in Malawi is also the subject of an international registration, and the protection resulting therefrom extends to Malawi; (b) the same person is recorded as holder of the registration in Malawi and of the international registration; (c) all the goods and services listed in the registration in Malawi are also listed in the international registration of a trademark in respect of Malawi, and (d) the extension of that international registration to Malawi took effect after the date of registration of the mark in Malawi,