(3) Regulations shall be made by the Minister under this Act for
securing that the representation or specimen of a design, in the case of
which directions are given under this section, shall not be open to
inspection at the Designs Office during the continuance in force of the
directions.
(4) Where the Registrar gives any such directions as aforesaid, he shall
give notice of the application and of the directions to the competent
authority, and thereupon the following provisions shall have effect, that
is to say:
(a)
the competent authority shall, upon receipt of such notice,
consider whether the publication of the design would be prejudicial to
the defence of the Republic and unless a notice under paragraph (c) has
previously been given by that authority to the Registrar, shall reconsider
that question before the expiration of nine months from the date of
lodging of the application for registration of the design and at least once
in every subsequent year;
(b)
for the purpose aforesaid, the competent authority may, at any
time after the design has been registered or with the consent of the
applicant, at any time before the design has been registered, inspect the
representation or specimen of the design lodged in pursuance of the
application;
(c)
if upon consideration of the design at any time it appears to the
competent authority that the publication of the design would not, or
would no longer, be prejudicial to the defence of the Republic, that
authority shall give notice to the Registrar to that effect;
(d)
on the receipt of any such notice, the Registrar shall revoke the
directions and may, subject to such conditions, if any, as he thinks fit,
extend the time for doing anything required or authorised to be done by
or under this Act in connection with the application or registration,
whether or not that time has previously expired.
(5) No person ordinarily resident or domiciled in Zambia shall, while in
Zambia, except under the authority of a written permit granted by or on
behalf of the Registrar, make or cause to be made any application
outside Zambia for the registration of a design of any class prescribed
for the purposes of this subsection unless-