Industrial Design [No. 22 of 2016 519 GOVERNMENT OF ZAMBIA ACT No. 22 of 2016 Date of Assent: 6th June, 2016 An Act to encourage the creation of designs and development of creative industries through enhanced protection and utilisation of designs; to provide for the registration and protection of designs; to provide for the rights of proprietors of registered designs: to provide for the restriction, publication and communication of registered designs; to provide for contractual and compulsory licences; to provide for the use and acquisition of registered designs by the Government; to give effect to the Paris Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property 1883, the Harare Protocol on Patents and Industrial Designs adopted on December 10, 1982, the World Trade Organisation Agreement on Trade Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights 1994 and any other relevant international treaty or Convention to which Zambia is a State Party; to repeal and replace the Registered Designs Act, 1958; and to provide for matters connected with, or incidental to, the foregoing. [7th June, 2016 ENACTED by the Parliament of Zambia. PART I PRELIMINARY PROVISIONS 1. This Act may be cited as the Industrial Designs Act, 2016, and shall come into operation on such date as the Minister may appoint by statutory instrument. Enactment Short title and commencement