Date of registration
21.—(1)  When an application for registration of a trade mark in Part A or B of the register has been accepted and has not been opposed, and the time for opposition has expired, or having been opposed the opposition has been decided in favour of the applicant, the Registrar shall, subject to subsection (2), register the trade mark in Part A or B, as the case may be, and the trade mark when registered shall be registered as of the date of the application for registration and that date shall be deemed for the purposes of this Act to be the date of registration.
(2)  Where, after the acceptance of an application for registration of a trade mark but before the registration of the trade mark, the Registrar is satisfied —
(a)that the application has been accepted in error; or
(b)that, in the special circumstances of the case, the trade mark should not be registered, or should be registered subject to conditions or limitations, or to additional or different conditions or limitations,
the Registrar may withdraw the acceptance and proceed as if the application had not been accepted.
[Act 7 of 1991 wef 01/03/1991]