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Trade Marks Act 1994
Part 1PRELIMINARY
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PART 1—PRELIMINARY
Short title
1. This Act may be cited as the Trade Marks Act 1994.
Commencement
2. (1) Subject to subsection (2), this Act commences on a day to be fixed by Proclamation.
(2) If this Act does not commence under subsection (1) before 1 January 1996, it commences on that day.
Trade Marks No. 156, 1994
Act binds the Crown
3.(1) This Act binds the Crown in right of the Commonwealth, of each of the States, of the Australian Capital Territory, of the Northern Territory and of Norfolk Island.
(2) Nothing in this Act makes the Crown liable to be prosecuted for an offence.
4. This Act extends to:
(a) each external Territory; and
(b) the Australian continental shelf; and
(c) the waters above the Australian continental shelf; and
(d) the airspace above Australia, each external Territory and the Australian continental shelf.