(2) An application for the registration of a design made by virtue of this section shall not be refused, and the registration of a design on such an application shall not be invalidated, by reason only of the registration or publication of the design in the former Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland or after the 1st January, 1964, the former Protectorate of Northern Rhodesia or the Republic during the period specified in proviso (i) to subsection (1) as that within which the application for registration may be made. (3) Where an applicant referred to in subsection (1) has applied for protection for any design by an application which, in accordance with the law of any convention country, is equivalent to an application duly made in that convention country, he shall be deemed for the purposes of this section to have applied in that convention country. (As amended by G.N. No. 187 of 1964 and S.I. No. 175 of 1965) 13A. (1) In this section- (a) "ARIPO" means the African Regional Industrial Property Organisation, formerly known as the Industrial Property Organisation for English-Speaking Africa (ESARIPO), which was established, under the former name, by an agreement adopted at Lusaka on 9th December, 1976; and (b) "ARIPO Protocol" means the Protocol on Patents and Industrial Designs within the Framework of ARIPO, adopted at Harare on 10th December, 1982. (2) Where an industrial design has been registered by ARIPO under section 4 (7) of the ARIPO Protocol and the Registrar has not objected, under section 4 (3) of the Protocol, to the industrial design having effect in Zambia, the design shall for all purposes be deemed to have been registered under this Act. (3) An industrial design shall not be deemed to have been registered under this section if, under section 4 (3) of the ARIPO Protocol, the Registrar objects to its having effect in Zambia. ARIPO industrial designs