(1) If—
(a) a person has made an application for the registration of a trade mark in one or more than one Convention country; and
(b) within 6 months after the day on which that application, or the first of those applications, was made, that person or that person's predecessor in title applies to the Registrar for the registration of the trade mark in respect of some or all of the goods or services or both in respect of which registration was sought in that country or those countries,
that person or that person's successor in title may, when filing the application, or within the prescribed period after filing the application but before the application is accepted, claim a right of priority for the registration of the trade mark in respect of any or all of those goods or services or both in accordance with the regulations.
(2) The priority claimed under subsection (1) is for the registration of the trade mark in respect of the goods or services—
(a) if an application to register the trade mark was made in only one Convention country from and including the day on which the application was made in that country; or
(b) if applications to register the trade mark were made in more than one Convention country from and including the day on which the earliest of those applications was made.