An Act to provide for the registration and protection of trade

marks and geographical indications; provide for the rights

conferred by the registration of trade marks and

geographical indications; provide for the effects of

registration of trade marks and geographical indications;

provide for civil and criminal enforcement for infringement

of registered trade marks and geographical indications;

domesticate the Madrid Protocol relating to the

International Registration of Marks, the Paris Convention

for the Protection of Industrial Property and the World

Trade Organisation Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects

of Intellectual Property Rights, and any other relevant

international treaty or convention to which the Republic

is a State Party; repeal and replace the Trade Marks Act,

1958; and provide for matters connected with, or incidental

to, the foregoing.