1. These Rules may be cited as the Trade Marks (Amendment) Rules 2006 and shall come into force on 1st January 2007.

2. The Trade Marks Rules 2000( 2 ) shall be amended as follows.

3. For rule 7 substitute—

“ Classification of goods and services; s 34

7. —(1) The prescribed system of classification for the purposes of the registration of trade marks is the Nice Classification.

(2) When a trade mark is registered it shall be classified according to the version of the Nice Classification that had effect on the date of application for registration.

(3) In these Rules—

(a) the “Nice Agreement” means the Nice Agreement Concerning the International Classification of Goods and Services for the Purposes of the Registration of Marks of 15th June 1957, which was last amended on 28th September 1979; and

(b) the “Nice Classification” means the system of classification under the Nice Agreement. ” .

4. In rule 8 for “Schedule 4”, wherever it occurs, substitute “the Nice Classification”.

5. In paragraphs (3) and (4) of rule 23—

(a) after “Schedule 1”, wherever it occurs, insert “of the Act”;

(b) after “Schedule 2”, wherever it occurs, insert “of the Act”.

6. In rule 46, for paragraph (1) substitute—

“ (1) The registrar may amend an entry in the register which relates to the classification of a registered trade mark so that it accords with the current Nice Classification. ” .

7. The instruments set out in the Schedule (revocations) are revoked to the extent specified.

Rule 7

SCHEDULE REVOCATIONS