12.—(1) The Registrar may refuse to accept any application for the registration of a trade mark on which appears —
(a)
the words or abbreviations or foreign equivalent of the words “Patent” ,“Patented”, “Registered”, “Registered Design”, “Registered Trade Mark”, “Copyright”, “To counterfeit this is a forgery”, or words to the like effect;
(b)
representations of the President or any colourable imitations thereof; or
(c)
the words “Red Cross” or “Geneva Cross” and representations of the Geneva and other crosses in red, or of the Swiss Federal cross in white on a red ground or silver on a red ground, or such representations in a similar colour or colours.
(2) Where there appears on a trade mark the registration of which is applied for a representation of a cross in any colour, not being one of those mentioned in paragraph (1)(c), the Registrar may require the applicant as a condition of acceptance to undertake not to use the cross device in red, or in white on a red ground or silver on a red ground, or in any similar colour or colours.