IPfN/l/GHA/TIl Page 38 , (4) Notwithstandinganythingin this Act the registration of a trade mark under this Act by virtue 'of subsection (3) of this section', shall .have.. the same date as the date of application in the country .referred to in that 'subsection.. (5) Nothing-in-this section .shall be deemed to entitle the proprietor of a trade mark-to recover damages for any infringement occurring prior to the date which, but for subsection (4) ofthis section would have been the date .ofregistratlon of thattrademark, , (6}'The registration under this 'Act of a trade mark to which this section applies shall not be invalidated by reason only of the use of that trade mark in Ghana during the period prescribed by virtue of paragraph 'b) of subsection (7) ,of this section as that within which ,the application for registration may be made" , (1) An application for registration under this Act of a trade mark to which this section applies must be made(0) in the manner specified in section 17 of this Act or, in , the case of a certincation trade mark, in the manner , specified in the First 'Schedule to this Act; and . (b) within suchperiod as may be prescribed. (8) A per~on shall for the purpose of this section be deemed to have applied, in a country to: which this section applies, for protection of a trade mark" 'of which he is the proprietor if he has made an application which->' (a) in accordance with the law of that country is equivalent to an application duly made in that country, or (b) in accordance' with the terms of 'any international arrangement subsisting between that country and any other country to which this section applies is equivalent to an application duly made in the first.. mentioned country. ' 62. Where an offence under section 54, 55 or 56, of this ActOffences by (a) is committedby a bod~ corporate not being ~ pa!tner-' ~~~~~f ,ship, or bya partnership or by a person purporting to act on behalfof the bodycorporate or the partnership, and (b) is proved to have been so committed with the consent or approval of, or to have been facilitated by any default on the part of, any person being, in the case of the body corporate, a director thereof, Of, in the case of the partnership, a partner thereof, ' that person is also, guilty of the offence.. 63. AU things required or authorised under this Act to be done Exercise of by, to or before the Minister other than the making of regulations Kf.w~rs of under section 65 of this Act, may be done by, to or before the Head inister, of his Ministry or by some other public officer authorised in writing in, that behalf by the Minister,