No. 4907 Act No. 1, 2012 Government Gazette 23 March 2012 71 INDUSTRIAL PROPERTY ACT, 2012 Notification of International Bureau by Registrar 128. (1) Where the Registrar is notified by the International Bureau that an international registration of a design contains a designation of Namibia, the Registrar must proceed in accordance with section 103 as if the relevant design is the subject of an application under this Act. (2) Where the Registrar finds that the requirements referred to in section 103(2) are not complied with, the Registrar must notify the International Bureau that protection of the design has been refused. (3) No such notification as referred to in subsection (2) may be given after the expiry of a period of six months from the date on which the Office received from the International Bureau a copy of the publication in which the international registration of the design concerned was published. (4) Where the Registrar finds that the requirements referred to in section 103 have been complied with, the Registrar must – (a) register the design; (b) issue the registered owner with a registration certificate; and (c) subject to subsection (5), publish a reference to the design registration in the bulletin. (5) A publication in terms of subsection (4)(c) may not take place before the copy of the publication of the international registration by the International Bureau has been received by the Office in accordance with the Hague Agreement. (6) Where an international application for the registration of a design under the Hague Agreement is filed at the Office, the Registrar must record the date on which the application was received by that Office as the filing date of the international application, and the Registrar must transmit the application to the International Bureau within one month of that date. (7) The Registrar must, at the time of transmitting an international application to the International Bureau in terms of subsection (6), notify the International Bureau of the date on which the office of the Registrar received the application, and must notify the applicant of this date and of the fact that the application has been transmitted to the International Bureau. Registrar to notify International Bureau concerning invalidation 129. Where a design registration registered in Namibia under the Hague Agreement has been invalidated in accordance with section 121, the Registrar must, as soon as possible, notify the International Bureau accordingly.