118 Government Gazette 23 March 2012 Act No. 1, 2012 No. 4907 INDUSTRIAL PROPERTY ACT, 2012 Deceiving officials 233. Any person who – (a) for the purpose of deceiving the Registrar or the Tribunal or any staff member or official in the administration of the provisions of this Act; or (b) for the purpose of procuring or influencing the doing or omission of anything in relation to this Act or any matter thereunder, makes a false statement or representation knowing the same to be false, commits an offence and on conviction is liable to a fine not exceeding N$ 5 000 or to imprisonment for a period not exceeding 12 months or to both such fine and imprisonment. PART 5 GENERAL Application of international conventions 234. (1) For purposes of this Part, the term “international convention” means any one of the following international or regional instruments, namely – (a) African Regional Intellectual Property Organisation (ARIPO) and the Banjul Protocol and Harare Protocol adopted by ARIPO; (b) Locarno Agreement on the International Classification for Industrial Designs; (c) Nice Agreement on the International Classification of Goods and Services; (d) Madrid Agreement Concerning the International Registration of Marks and the Madrid Protocol adopted under that Agreement; (e) Paris Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property; (f) Patent Co-operation Treaty; (g) the Hague Agreement Concerning the International Deposit of Industrial Designs; and (h) any international agreement or convention which the Minister by notice in the Gazette declares, subject to Article 63(2)(e) of the Namibian Constitution, to be an international convention for the purposes of this Act. (2) In applying the provisions of this Act, the version of any international convention which is applicable for the purposes of this Act is that version of such convention and of any regulations issued thereunder which is in operation at the date of the commencement of this Act as contemplated in section 242.