Adaptation of entries to new classification

(1) The Minister may make Regulations empowering the Registrar to do such things as the Registrar considers necessary to implement any amended or substituted classification of goods or services for purposes of the registration of trade marks. 12 (2) Regulations made pursuant to this section may in particular provide for the amendment of existing entries on the register so as to accord with the new classification. (3) Any such power of amendment as is referred to in this section shall not be exercised so as to extend the rights conferred by registration except where it appears to the Registrar that full compliance with this requirement would involve undue complexity and that any extension would not adversely affect the rights of any person. (4) The Regulations may empower the Registrar, (a) to require the proprietor of a registered trade mark, within such time as may be prescribed, to file a proposal for amendment of the register; and (b) to cancel or refuse to renew the registration of the trade mark in the event of the proprietor failing to do so. (5) Any such proposal shall be advertised in at least two newspapers having general circulation in Belize and in one issue of the Gazette, and may be opposed, in such manner as may be prescribed.