LawgistThe Trade Marks Act
14Use of names and representations of living persons or persons recently dead
Where an application is made for the registration of a trade mark which falsely suggests a connection with any living person, or a person whose death took place within twenty years prior to the date of application for registration of the trade mark, the Registrar may, before he proceeds with the application, require the applicant to furnish him with the consent in writing of such living person or, as the case may be, of the legal representative of the deceased person to the connection appearing on the trade mark, and may refuse to proceed with the application unless the applicant furnishes the Registrar with such consent.
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THE REGISTER AND CONDITIONS FOR REGISTRATION
- 3 Appointment of Registrar and other officers
- 4 Power of Registrar to withdraw or transfer cases, etc
- 5 Trade Marks Registry and offices thereof
- 6 The Register of Trade Marks
- 7 Classification of goods and services
- 8 Publication of alphabetical index
- 9 Absolute grounds for refusal of registration
- 10 Limitation as to colour
- 11 Relative grounds for refusal of registration
- 12 Registration in the case of honest concurrent use, etc
- 13 Prohibition of registration of names of chemical elements or international non-proprietary names
- 14 Use of names and representations of living persons or persons recently dead
- 15 Registration of parts of trade marks and of trade marks as a series
- 16 Registration of trade marks as associated trade marks
- 17 Effect of registration of parts of a mark
