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reduction of protection periods in relation to registered Olympic designs

  9. Section 11 of the Principal Act is amended:

  (a) by omitting paragraphs (2)(a) and (b) and substituting the following paragraphs:

      "(a) must be in accordance with an approved form; and

       (b) must be accompanied by the prescribed fee; and";

  (b) by omitting from paragraph (2)(c) "shall" and substituting "must".

Insertion of new section

  10. After section 11 of the Principal Act the following section is inserted:

Reduction of protection periods for registered torch and flame designs

"11A.(1) The Registrar must, on the application of the Committee made in accordance with an approved form, reduce the duration of the protection period in relation to a registered torch and flame design.

"(2) Where the protection period in relation to a registered torch and flame design ends, the Registrar must cause notice of the end of that period to be published in the Gazette and in the Official Journal.".

Register of Olympic Designs

11. Section 12 of the Principal Act is amended by omitting paragraph (2)(b) and substituting the following word and paragraphs:

      "and (b) the end and extension of protection periods in relation to registered Olympic designs; and

   (ba) registered torch and flame designs; and

   (bb) the end of protection periods in relation to registered torch and flame designs; and".

Certain purported dispositions or charges to be void

  12. Section 15 of the Principal Act is amended:

    (a) by omitting from paragraphs (1)(b) and (2)(b) "protected design" and substituting "registered Olympic design";

  (b) by adding at the end the following subsections:

    "(3) A disposition, by assignment, declaration of trust or by any other means, purporting to be made by the Committee of the whole or any part of its interest in a registered torch and flame design is void.

    "(4) A charge purporting to be given by the Committee with respect to an asset of the Committee that consists of, or includes, the whole or any part of its interest in a registered torch and flame design is void.".

Application of the Copyright Act 1968

  13. Section 17 of the Principal Act is amended:

  (a) by inserting after paragraph (1)(a) the following paragraph:

      "(aa) the copyright in a prescribed Olympic torch and flame; and";

  (b) by omitting from subsection (3) "Olympic";

  (c) by inserting after subsection (5) the following subsection:

     "(5A) Where the protection period in relation to a registered torch and flame design has ended, it is not an infringement of the copyright in the artistic work concerned to apply the design to an article.".

Certain marks not to be registered under the Trade Marks Act 1955

14. Section 19 of the Principal Act is amended by inserting after paragraph