(2) 62. For the purposes of this section, the use in Nigeria in relation to a trade mark of the word registered or of any other word referring whether expressly or by implication to registration, shall be taken to import a reference to registration in the register, except (a) where that word is used in physical association with other words delineated in characters at least as large as those in which that word is delineated and indicating that the reference is to registration as a trade mark under the law of a country other than Nigeria, being a country under the law of which the registration referred to is in fact in force; or (b) where that word (being a word other than the word registered) is of itself such as to indicate that the reference is to such registration as last aforesaid; or (c) where that word is used in relation to a mark registered as a trade mark under the law of a country other than Nigeria and in relation to goods to be exported to that country. (1) If in connection with any trade, business, calling or profession any person, without the authorisation of the appropriate authority - (a) uses the Arms of Nigeria or the Arms of a State (or arms so closely resembling the same as to be calculated to deceived) in any manner calculated to lead to the belief that he is duly authorised to use the Arms of Nigeria or the Arms of that State, as the case may be; or (b) uses any device, emblem or title in any manner calculated to lead to the belief that he is employed by or supplies goods to the President or the Governor of a State in his official capacity as such, he shall be guilty of an offence and liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding forty naira. (2) Nothing in the foregoing subsection shall be construed as affecting the right, if any, of the proprietor of a trade mark containing any such arms, device, emblem or title as aforesaid to continue to use that trade mark (3) In this section, the appropriate authority"(a) in relation to the Arms of Nigeria and to employment by or the supply of goods to the President, means the President; and (b) in relation to the Arms of a State and to employment by or the supply of goods to the Governor of a state, means he Governor of that State. Miscellaneous and supplemental 63. (1) The Registrar shall, from time to time, publish a journal (in this Act referred to as the Journal) to be known as the Trade Marks Journal. (2) There shall be published in the Journal all matters required by or under this Act to be so published and all such other matters relating to trade marks as the Registrar thinks fit. 64. (1) Where the relations between two or more persons interested in a trade mark are such that no one of them is entitled as between himself and the other or others of them to use it except (a) (b) (2) on behalf of both or all of them; or in relation to an article with which both or all of them are connected in the course of trade, those persons may be registered as joint proprietors of the trade mark, and this Act shall have effect in relation to any rights to the use of the trade mark vested in those persons as if those rights had been vested in a single person. Subject to he foregoing subsection, nothing in this Act shall authorise the registration of two or more persons who use a trade mark independently, or propose so to use it, as joint proprietors thereof.

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