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| (1) Subject to the provisions of subsection (2), the Institution may, with the approval of the Minister, by notice published in the Gazette, declare any mark which has been accepted by the Institution in respect of a standard specification approved by it for any commodity or product, or for the manufacture, production, processing or treatment of any commodity or product, to be a certification mark in respect of that commodity or product or of the manufacture, production, processing or treatment of that commodity or product, 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is identical with any trade mark registered in respect of any commodity or product under the Trade Marks Ordinance (repealed by Act No. 52 of 1979) and the Code of Intellectual Property Act, No. 52 of 1979, as the case may be or which so nearly resembles any such trade mark as to be,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 certification mark in respect of that commodity or product or any similar commodity or product or in respect of the manufacture, production, processing of treatment of that commodity or product or any similar commodity or product. |
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| (3) A notice under subsection (1) shall contain such information in regard to the relevant standard specification or amendment thereof as the Institution may consider necessary. |
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