Commonwealth Consolidated Acts Commonwealth Consolidated Acts(1) A Register of Trade Marks is to be kept at the Trade Marks Office.
(2) The Registrar must enter in the Register in accordance with this Act:
(a) all particulars of registered trade marks, certification trade marks and defensive trade marks, and all other matters, that were on the old register when the repealed Act was repealed, with the exception of particulars and other matters relating to registered users of trade marks; and
Note 1: For old register see section 6.
Note 2: See subsection (3) for entries relating to associated trade marks.
(b) particulars of trade marks, certification trade marks, collective trade marks and defensive trade marks, and all other matters, that are required to be registered under this Act; and
(c) other prescribed matters.
(3) If 2 or more trade marks were entered as associated trade marks in the old register, no equivalent entry designating them as associated trade marks is to be made in the Register.
Note: For old register see section 6.
(4) All particulars entered in the Register under paragraph (2)(a) are taken to have been so entered on 1 January 1996.