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| (1) Subject to the provisions of subsection (2), the Bureau may, with the approval of the Minister, by notice published in the Gazette, declare any mark which has been adopted by the Bureau in respect of a specification framed by it for any commodity, or for the manufacture, production, processing or treatment of any commodity, to be a standardization mark in respect of that commodity or of the manufacture, production, processing or treatment of that commodity, and may in like manner abolish or amend any such mark. |
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| (2) No mark which is identical with any trade mark registered in respect of any commodity under the Trade Marks Ordinance or which so nearly resembles any such trade mark as to be likely to be mistaken for it, shall under subsection (1) be declared a standardization mark in respect of that commodity or any similar commodity or in respect of the manufacture, production, processing or treatment of that commodity or any similar commodity. |
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| (3) A notice under subsection (1) shall contain such information in regard to the relevant specification or amendment thereof as the Bureau may consider necessary. |
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