If you owned a registered trade mark before this new law started, and you had already given a notice to the chief executive under the old law (Section 54B of the Trade Marks Act 1953), you don't need to worry. Your notice will still be valid under the new law. It will be treated as if you gave it under Section 137 of the new Trade Marks Act 2002. This means that the rules in Subpart 3 of Part 4 of the new Act will apply to your notice, just as if you had given it under the new law. This helps make sure that your rights are protected even as the law changes.