Section 26. Effect of removal from register for failure to pay fee for renewal

26. Effect of removal from register for failure to pay fee for renewal. —Where a trade mark has been removed from the register for failure to pay the fee for renewal, it shall nevertheless, for the purpose of any application for the registration of another trade mark during one year, next after the date of the removal, be deemed to be a trade mark already on the register, unless the[1] [Registrar or the High Court, as the case may be] is satisfied either— (a) that there has been no bona fide trade use of the trade mark which has been removed during the two years immediately preceding its removal; or