Revised Laws of Saint Lucia (2021)

186.   Address for service

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    (1)   The address for service of a person who has filed an application, notice or request is—

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      (a)     the address for service stated in the application, notice or request; or

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      (b)     if the person subsequently notifies in writing another address to the Registrar, that other address.

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    (2)   Where a trade mark is registered, or a claim to an interest in, or to a right in respect of, a registered trade mark that a person has is recorded in the Register, the Registrar shall enter in the Register as the address for service of the registered owner or of the person—

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      (a)     if paragraph (b) does not apply, the address given, or last given, by the registered owner or the person to the Registrar under subsection (1); or

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      (b)     if, before the Registrar registers the trade mark or records the claim to the interest or right, the registered owner or person gives in writing to the Registrar another address as his or her address for service, that other address.

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    (3)   The registered owner of a registered trade mark, or any person whose claim to an interest in, or to a right in respect of, a trade mark is recorded in the Register, shall notify the Registrar in writing of any change in his or her address for service and the Registrar shall amend the Register accordingly.

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    (4)   The address for service of—

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      (a)     the registered owner of a registered trade mark; or

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      (b)     a person whose claim to an interest in, or to a right in respect of, a trade mark is recorded in the Register,

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    is the address set out from time to time in the Register as being the address for service of the registered owner or of the person.

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    (5)   An address for service shall be an address in Saint Lucia.

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    (6)   If this Act provides that a document is to be served on, or given or sent to, a person—

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      (a)     the document may be left at, or sent by post to, the address for service of the person; or

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      (b)     if the person does not have an address for service, the document may be served on an agent of the person in Saint Lucia or may be sent by post to any address of the person in Saint Lucia that is known to the Registrar.

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    (7)   Subsection (6) does not affect the operation of section 23 of the Interpretation Act.