Act 3 Industrial Property Act 2014 107. Exemption from stamp duty. No duty shall be chargeable under the Stamps Act in respect of any instrument executed by, or on behalf of, or in favour of the registrar which, but for this section, the registrar would be liable to pay. 108. Consequential amendment of Cap. 210. The Uganda Registration Services Bureau Act is amended in item 11 of the First Schedule, by substituting for the reference to the Patent Act the words “Industrial Property Act, 2009”. 109. Repeal of Cap. 216 and Cap. 218, transitional and savings provisions. (1) The Patents Act and the United Kingdom Designs Protection Act are repealed. (2) Where a patent was registered in Uganda under the former patent Act or where it was saved under that Act and the privileges and rights conferred by the registration were effective immediately before the commencement of this Act, then, subject to this section— (a) the patent shall be treated in Uganda as if it had been granted under this Act; (b) the patent shall expire as regards Uganda when those privileges and rights could have expired if this Act had not been enacted; (c) the patent may be revoked or invalidated only where those privileges and rights could be declared as not having been acquired in Uganda if this Act had not been enacted; (d) the certificate of registration, or a certified copy of the patent, shall be admissible as prima facie evidence of the date and the fact of registration; and 85