Intellectual Property Act 2003 · As enacted · Part XI
211. Savings of Marks
Official English translation. Where it differs from the Sinhala or Tamil text, the Act itself says which text prevails.
Official translationFrom Department of Government Printing, unchanged
The validity of the original entry of a Mark on the Register of Marks existing on the day immediately preceeding the date of commencement of this Act or any register of Marks which was kept under any previous law and was incorrporated with and declared to form Part of the
Register of Marks shall be deemed to have been registered under Part V of this Act. Every such Mark shall however retain its original date.
No mark which was on the Register on the day immediately after the date of commencement of the Code and which under the Code was then a registrable mark shall be removed from the Register on the ground that it was not registrable under the law in force at the date of its registration.
No mark which was on the Register on the day immediately preceeding the date of commencement of the
Act and which under Part V is a registrable mark shall be removed from the register on the ground that it was not registrable, under the law in force at the date of its registration.
Nothing in Part V shall—
invalidate the original registration of a mark which had validity on the register immediately before the date of commencement of this Act ; or
subject any person to any liability in respect to any act or thing done before the date of commencement of this Act, to which he would not have been subject under the law in force at the time such act or thing was done.