532 No. 22 of 2016] Industrial Design (3) Where an applicant fails to comply with the notification as provided in subsection (2), the Registrar shall, in examining the amended application, ignore the additional matter and notify the applicant accordingly. (4) Where an applicant for the registration of a design makes a request to amend the application for the registration of a design, as provided in subsection (1), after the Registrar has accepted the application, the Registrar shall notify the applicant making the request, to advertise the request in the Industrial Property Journal, within a prescribed period. (5) Where the request, referred to in subsection (4), has been advertised by the applicant for the registration of a design, an interested person may oppose the request within the prescribed period and manner. (6) Where opposition is made as provided in subsection (5), the Registrar shall decide the matter. (7) A person aggrieved by the decision of the Registrar under subsection (6) may, within three months of receiving the decision, appeal to the court. Post-dating of application 33. (1) At any time, after an application for the registration of a design has been filed and before it is published, the Registrar may, at the request of the applicant, made in the prescribed manner, direct that the application be postdated. (2) The Registrar shall not direct the postdating of an application for the registration of a design, referred to in subsection (1), to a period exceeding six months from the date on which the application was filed. (3) The Registrar shall not postdate an application for the registration of a design where priority has been claimed by an applicant, in Zambia or elsewhere, or the applicant’s successor or predecessor in title, in a subsequent application which leaves any rights outstanding. Correction of errors in documents 34. (1) The Registrar may, on the request made by an applicant for the registration of a design, authorise the correction of a clerical error in a document filed with the Agency, on payment of a prescribed fee. (2) Where a request for the correction of an error referred to in subsection (1), concerns drawings or illustrations of the design, the correction must be obvious and immediately evident that nothing else would be intended than what is offered as a correction.

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