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Olympic Insignia Protection Regulations (Statutory Rules 1993 No. 234)

AU047: Unfair Competition (Olympic Insignia), Regulations, 02/09/1993, No. 234

Statutory Rules 1993 No. 2341

Olympic Insignia Protection Regulations

I, THE ADMINISTRATOR of the Government of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, make the following Regulations under the Olympic Insignia Protection Act 1987.

Dated 2 September 1993.

P. BENNETT
Administrator

By His Excellency's Command,

C. SCHACHT
Minister for Science and Small Business

Citation

1. These Regulations may be cited as the Olympic Insignia Protection Regulations.

[NOTE: These Regulations commence on gazettal: see Acts Interpretation Act 1901, s. 48.]

Interpretation

2. In these Regulations, unless the contrary intention appears:
"Act" means Olympic Insignia Protection Act 1987;
"approved form" has the same meaning as in Part III of the Act;
"Register" means Register of Olympic Designs.

Application for registration of olympic design-fee

3. For the purposes of paragraph 10 (2) (b) of the Act, the fee for an application for registration of an olympic design is an amount equal to the amount of the fee prescribed under regulation 4 of the Designs Regulations for the lodging of an application for the registration of a design.

Application for extension of protection period-registered olympic designs: fee

4. For the purposes of paragraph 11 (2) (b) of the Act, the fee for an application for extension of the protection period in relation to a registered olympic design is an amount equal to the amount of the fee prescribed under regulation 4 of the Designs Regulations for the lodging of a request for the second extension of the period of registration of a design.

Times for public inspection of Register

5. For the purposes of subsection 12 (3) of the Act, the times at which the Designs Office is open to the public in accordance with regulation 53 of the Designs Regulations are prescribed.

Correction of Register

6.
(1) On a request being made in the approved form, the Registrar may amend an entry in the Register for the purposes of correcting a clerical error or an obvious mistake.
(2) The Registrar may, of his or her own initiative, amend an entry in the Register to correct a clerical error or an obvious mistake.

NOTE

1. Notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette on 9 September 1993.