Trademarks Regulations, 1970 (L.I. 667)

Regulation 12:(1) An application to register a certification trade mark under section 36 of the Act shall be made to the Registrar upon the prescribed form, and shall be accompanied by two duplicates of the application on copies of the said prescribed form and by four additional representations of the trade mark.(2) These Regulations shall apply to such application as they apply to applications to resister ordinary trade marks, except that for reference therein to acceptance of an application there shall be substituted references to authorisation to proceed with the application, and that the applicant shall not be deemed to have abandoned his application if in the circumstances of regulation 7 or 8 he does not apply for a hearing or reply in writing.(3) The address of an applicant to register a certification trade mark shall be deemed to be a trade or business address for all the purposes for which such an address is required by these Regulations.(4) The applicant shall send to the Registrar with his application or when required by the Registrar a case setting out the grounds on which he relies in support of his application together with draft rules for governing the use of the mark, all being in duplicate. The Registrar may send to the applicant any observations he may have to make on the sufficiency of the case or the suitability of the draft rules and the applicant may modify either of these documents.(5) If the Registrar decides to authorise the application to proceed, he shall report to the Minister thereon, and the Minister may at any time call for such evidence, if any, as he thinks fit, and shall if required hear the applicant and the Registrar, before giving directions as provided in paragraph 1 (5) of the First Schedule to the Act.(6) When such directions have been given and the application has been accepted the rules for governing the use of the mark approved by the Minister, as well as the form of application, shall be open to public inspection.

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Office of the Attorney-General & Ministry of Justice

Accra
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