Trade Marks Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

Statutory Rules

1979 No. 109

REGULATIONS UNDER THE TRADE MARKS ACT 19551

I, THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, hereby make the following Regulations under the Trade Marks Act 1955.

Dated this twenty-eighth day of June 1979.

ZELMAN COWEN

Governor-General

By His Excellency's Command,

IAN MACPHEE

Minister of State for Productivity

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AMENDMENT OF THE TRADE MARKS REGULATIONS2

Second Schedule

1. The Second Schedule to the Trade Marks Regulations is repealed and the following Schedule substituted:

SECOND SCHEDULE Regulation 4

FEES

Item No.	Matter	Fee
$
1	On lodging an application to register a trade mark or a series of trade marks........	40.00
2	For registration of a trade mark or a series of trade marks......................................	60.00
3	On lodging an application to the Registrar under section 19, 20, 21, 23, 74, 75, 87 or 127 or sub-section 36 (2) of the Act, not being an application for the cancellation of the entry of a trademark or for change of address	15.00
4	On lodging notice of opposition..............................................................................	40.00
5	On an application to lodge further evidence in opposition proceedings..................	25.00
6	On appearing at a hearing or on lodging a request under Regulation 76................	50.00
7	On lodging an application for restoration under section 71 of the Act....................	120.00
8	On lodging an application under section 69 of the Act for renewal of the registration of a trade mark—in respect of each registration................................................................................................................	150.00
9	For entry in the Register of association of a trade mark under sub-section 36 (1) of the Act	5.00
10	For a certified copy of a Certificate of Registration.................................................	10.00
11	For a certificate of the Registrar under section 17 of the Act..................................	10.00
12	For photographic copies of, or extracts from, the Register or other documents under section 17 of the Act-per document	3.00
13	On lodging an application for an extension of a time or period prescribed in the Act— (i) for each month or part of month in respect of which application for extension of time is applied	20.00
	(ii) if lodged after the expiration of the time or period to be extended the amount payable under paragraph (i) plus an amount of............................................................................................	40.00
14	Taxing of costs.........................................................................................................	20.00

 

Saving

2. Notwithstanding the amendments of the Trade Marks Regulations made by regulation 1, where an application to register a trade mark has been accepted before the date of commencement of these Regulations, the fee payable in respect of the registration of the trade mark, and any fee payable in respect of entering that trade mark in the register as an associated trade mark in pursuance of sub-section 36 (1) of the Act, is the fee that, but for these Regulations, would have been payable in respect of the registration of that trade mark, or the entering of that trade mark in the Register, before that date.

 

NOTES

1. Notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette on 29 June 1979.

2. Statutory Rules 1956 No. 48 as amended by Statutory Rules 1961 No. 36; 1973 No. 289; 1975 No. 202; and 1979 No. 11.