The Laws of Zambia 2. (1) In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires"article" means any article of manufacture and includes any part of an article if that part is made and sold separately; "artistic work" means a work of any of the following descriptions, that is to say: (a) the following, irrespective of artistic quality, namely, paintings, sculptures, drawings, engravings and photographs; (b) works of architecture, being either buildings or models for buildings; (c) works of artistic craftsmanship, not falling within paragraph (a) or (b); "assignee" means(a) the person who has derived his title to the design for Zambia directly or indirectly from the proprietor thereof or from the latter's assignee; or (b) the legal representative of such person; "Convention" means the Union Convention of Paris, dated the 20th March, 1883, for the Protection of Industrial Property, revised at Brussels on the 14th December, 1900, at Washington on the 2nd June, 1911, at The Hague on the 6th November, 1925, and at London on the 2nd June, 1934, and any revision thereof to which the *(1)former Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland or the former Protectorate of Northern Rhodesia may have acceded or to which the **(2)Republic may accede in terms of section seven of the Patents Act; * Acceded with effect from 1st April, 1958. (F.G.N. No. 39 of 1958.) ** Acceded with effect from 24th October, 1964. (G.N. No. 1751 of 1965.) "convention country" means a country (including any colony, protectorate or territory subject to the authority or under the suzerainty of that country, or any territory over which a mandate or trusteeship is exercised) which has been declared to be a convention country in terms of the Patents Act; "copyright", in relation to a registered design, has the meaning assigned to it by subsection (1) of section fourteen; "corresponding design", in relation to an artistic work, means a design which, when applied to an article, results in a reproduction of that work; "design" means features of shape, configuration, pattern or ornament applied to an article by any industrial process or means, being features which in the finished article appeal to and are judged solely by the eye, but does not include a method or principle of construction or features of shape or configuration which are dictated solely by the function which the article to be made in that shape or configuration has to perform; "Designs Office" means the Designs Office established under section three; "legal practitioner" means a person admitted or otherwise entitled to practise as a barrister and solicitor in terms of the Legal Practitioners Act; "legal representative" means(a) the liquidator or receiver of a company; (b) the representative recognised by law of any person who has died, become bankrupt, assigned his estate, is an infant or a minor, or of unsound mind, or is otherwise under a disability; "Patent Journal" means the journal for which provision is made in section ninety-five of the Patents Act; "proprietor" has the meaning assigned to it by section eight; "register" means the register of designs kept under the provisions of this Act; Copyright Ministry of Legal Affairs, Government of the Republic of Zambia Interpretation Cap. 400 Cap. 400 Cap. 30 Cap. 400

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