(1) This section provides for the making of a divisional application for the registration of a trade mark in respect of some of the goods or services or both in respect of which registration of the trade mark is being sought by the initial application.
(2) The applicant for the registration of a trade mark may, subject to subsection (3), make a divisional application for the registration of the trade mark in respect of any, but not all, of—
(a) the goods or services or both specified in the initial application; or
(b) if the initial application has been amended to exclude some of the goods or services or both specified in that application before its amendment the goods or services or both specified in the initial application as amended.
(3) If the initial application has been accepted, the divisional application may not be made after the notice of acceptance is published in the Gazette under section 18.