Cancellation of registered brands

(1) The Registrar of Brands may cancel the registration of any brand– (a) on the application in writing of the person in whose name any such brand is registered; (b) on being satisfied that any person, in whose name any such brand is registered is dead or has permanently left Belize, or (c) where it is the same as another registered brand or where it may be mistaken for another registered brand, and may specify another brand to be substituted and registered in place thereof. 10 (2) The Registrar of Brands shall as soon as possible after such cancellation cause the deletion of the relevant entry to be made in the National Register of Brands and cause a notification thereof and the reason there for to be published in the Gazette. He shall also publish in the Gazette the registration of any substituted brand.