Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2024C00545:section:225
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2024C00545
Segment Type: section
Provision Reference: s 225
Character Range: 277712–278805

225  Convention countries
 (2) If:
 (a) the regulations declare that, under the terms of a treaty subsisting between 2 or more Convention countries, an application made for the registration of a trade mark in one of those countries is equivalent to an application made in another of those countries; and
 (b) an application for the registration of a trade mark is made in one of those Convention countries;
then, for the purposes of this Act, an application for the registration of the trade mark is taken to have also been made in the other Convention country or in each of the other Convention countries (as the case may be).
 (3) If:
 (a) the regulations declare that, under the law of a Convention country, an application for the registration of a trade mark made in another country is equivalent to an application made in the Convention country; and
 (b) an application for the registration of a trade mark is made in that other country;
then, for the purposes of this Act, an application for the registration of the trade mark is taken to have also been made in the Convention country.