A person who has submitted an application as stated in Section
17(a) in respect of several classes of goods, may, as long as no trade
mark in the subject matter of the application has been registered
under Section 26, apply to the Registrar for a division of the
application into separate applications, according to classes of the
goods, in the prescribed manner ( referred to in this section as - an
application for division); the Registrar having decided on such a
division, that date of each of the applications that have been so
separated shall be the date on which the original application was
submitted.
(b) Where an application for division has been submitted, after
publication of receipt of the original application under Section 23,
any objection submitted under Section 24 to registration of the
trademark that is the subject of the original application shall be
deemed to have been submitted in respect of each of the separated
applications in so far as the objection relates to it.