Section 68 Trade Marks Act 1967

Section 68 of the Trade Marks Act 1967 is about Transitional provisions, repeal and savings. It is under ‘Miscellaneous and supplemental’ of the Act. It provides as follows:

(1) The transitional provisions set out in the Second Schedule to this Act shall have effect with respect to the various matters therein mentioned.
[Second Schedule.]

(2) The enactments mentioned in the Third Schedule to this Act are hereby repealed to the extent specified in the third column of that Schedule.

(3) Nothing in this Act shall affect any order, requirement or application made, certificate issued, or notice, decision, determination, direction or approval given, or any other thing done, under any enactment repealed by this Act; and every such order, requirement, application, certificate, notice, decision, determination, direction, approval or thing shall, if in force at the commencement of this Act, continue in force and shall, so far as it could have been made, issued, given or done under this Act or the regulations, have effect as if made, issued, given or done under the corresponding provision of this Act or the regulations.

(4) Without prejudice to the generality of subsection (3) of this section, the appointment as Registrar of Trade Marks of the officer who immediately before the commencement of this Act held that office shall be deemed to have been made by the Federal Civil Service Commission under this Act.

(5) Any proceedings begun under the Trade Marks Act may be continued under this Act.
[Cap. 199 of the 1958 Edition. Cap. TI3.]

(6) The provisions of this section shall be without prejudice to the provisions of section 6 of the Interpretation Act (which relates to the effect of repeals).

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