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BUSINESS AND INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY
AUTHORITY ACT, 2016
by the substitution for the definition of “Registrar” of the following
definition:
“Registrar” means the Registrar of business and industrial property as
defined in section 1 of BIPA Act;”;
(iii)
by the insertion after the definition of “Registrar” of the following
definition:
““Registration Office” means the Registration Office as defined in
section 1 of BIPA Act;”;
(d)
in section 4 by the substitution for subsection (1) of the following subsection:
“(1) For the purposes of this Act, the companies are registered at the
Registration Office.”;
(e)
in section 6 by the deletion of subsection (1), (2) and (3);
(f)
in section 9 by the substitution for subsection (3) of the following subsection:
“(3) Any fees, additional fees, annual duty and any other moneys
payable under this Act to the Registrar are for the account of BIPA and any
outstanding fees or other money due and payable are debt due to BIPA and are
recoverable by BIPA in any competent court.”; and
(g)
by the repeal of section 16, 17, 18 and 19.
3.
Amendment of the Copyright and Neighbouring Rights Protection Act,
1994 (Act No. 6 of 1994)
The Copyright and Neighbouring Rights Protection Act, 1994 is amended (a)
by the substitution for the word “Minister” of the word “Board” wherever it
appears in the Act, except in sections 1, 61, 63 and 69;
(b)
by the insertion after the definition of “author” of the following definitions:
““BIPA” means the Business and Intellectual Property Authority established by
section 3 of BIPA Act;
“BIPA Act” means the Business and Intellectual Property Authority Act, 2016
(Act No. 8 of 2016);
“Board” means the Board of BIPA constituted under section 8 of BIPA Act;”;
(c)
by the substitution of the definition “Minister” of the following definition:
“Minister” means the Minister responsible for trade;”;
(d)
by the substitution of the following paragraph for paragraph (b) of subsection
(2) of section 56: