Industrial Design
[No. 22 of 2016
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(4) If a person fails to pay an administrative penalty, within
the period specified in subsection (2), the Registrar may, by way of
civil action in a competent court, recover the amount of the
administrative penalty from such person as an amount due and
owing to the Agency.
106.
(1)
Subject to this Act, where—
Prescribed fee
(a) a prescribe fee is payable in respect of the performance
of any act by the Registrar or any other authorised
person, the act shall not be performed until the fee is
paid in full;or
(b) a prescribed fee is payable in respect of the filing of a
document, the document shall be considered not to have
been filed until the fee is paid in full.
(2) Prescribed fees shall be paid to the Agency in such manner
as the Agency may determine.
107. Despite section one hundred and six, the Registrar may,
in whole or in part, waive the payment of a prescribed fee, in
accordance with prescribed circumstances.
Waiver of
payment of
prescribed
fee
108. (1) The Minister may, by statutory instrument, make
regulations prescribing anything which is required to be prescribed
and generally for the better carrying out of, or giving effect to, the
purposes of this Act.
Regulations
(2) Without derogating from the generality of subsection (1),
regulations made by the Minister may provide for—
(a) administrative requirements or any necessary details for
the implementation of this Act and any relevant
international treaty or convention to which Zambia is a
State Party;
(b) procedures for applications for the registration of a design
in accordance with this Act;
(c) forms to be used for purposes of this Act;
(d) fees to be charged for purposes of this Act; and
(e) preventive mechanisms aimed at protecting registered
designs.
109. The Registered Designs Act, 1958, is repealed.
110. The transitional provisions set out in the Schedule apply
for purposes of this Act.
Repeal
Transitional
provisions
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