Section 12

Any matter required to be published in the Gazette before the date of coming into operation of this Act shall be published accordingly in the Gazette as if this Act had not been enacted.

Any application for the registration of an industrial design pending on the date of coming into operation of this Act shall be dealt with under the principal Act as amended by this Act.

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Except for a registered industrial design saved under section 49 of the principal Act, an industrial design that has been registered under the principal Act before the date of coming into operation of this Act may, on an application under section 25 of the principal Act as amended by this Act, be extended for the available further consecutive terms of five years each.

Any matter published in the Gazette under the principal

Act shall be deemed to be published in the Official Journal and section 46a shall apply accordingly without prejudice to any other written laws.

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