ss 19–22 TRADE MARKS ACT application for registration, and that date shall be deemed, for the purposes of this Act, to be the date of registration: Provided that— (i) where the Registrar is satisfied that the trade mark has been accepted in error or that, in the special circumstances of the case, the trade mark should not be registered or should be registered subject to amendments, modifications, conditions or limitations or to additional or different amendments, modifications, conditions or limitations, he may withdraw the acceptance and proceed as if the application had not been accepted; (ii) the provisions of this subsection, relating to the date as at which a trade mark shall be registered and to the dale to be deemed to be the date of registration, shall, as respects a trade mark referred to in subsection (1) of section ninety-seven, have effect subject to the provisions of that section. (2) On the registration of a trade mark, the Registrar shall issue to the applicant a certificate in the prescribed form of the registration thereof sealed with the seal of the Trade Marks Office. (3) Where the registration of a trade mark is not completed within twelve months from the date of the application by reason of default on the part of the applicant, the Registrar may, after giving notice of the non-completion to the applicant in writing in the prescribed manner, treat the application as abandoned, unless it is completed within the time specified in the notice. 24 Duration and renewal of registration (1) Subject to subsection (6), the registration of a trade mark shall be for a period of ten years but may be renewed from time to time in accordance with the provisions of this section. (2) Subject to this section, the registered proprietor of a trade mark may, in the prescribed manner and within the prescribed period, renew the registration of the trade mark for a period of ten years from the expiration of the last registration. (3) At the prescribed time before the expiration of the last registration of a trade mark, the Registrar shall send notice in the prescribed manner to the registered proprietor of the date of expiration and the conditions as to payment of fees and otherwise upon which a renewal of registration may be obtained and if, at the expiration of the time prescribed in that behalf, those conditions have not been duly complied with, the Registrar may remove the trade mark from the Register, subject to such conditions, if any, as to its restoration to the Register as may be prescribed. (4) Where a trade mark has been removed from the Register for non-payment of the fee for renewal, it shall nevertheless, for the purpose of any application for the registration of a trade mark during one year next after the date of the removal, be deemed to be a trade mark that is on the Register: Provided that this subsection shall not have effect where the Registrar is satisfied that— (a) there has been no bona fide trade use in Zimbabwe of the trade mark that has been removed during the three years immediately preceding its removal; or (b) 93 no deception or confusion would be likely to arise from the use of the trade mark that is the subject of the application for registration by reason of any [Chapter 26:04]