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IP/N/1/TON/U/1  
 
3 August 2022  
(22-5814)  Page: 1/2 
Council for Trade -Related Aspects of  
Intellectual Property Rights  Original: English  
 
NOTIFICATION OF LAWS AND REGULATIONS  
UNDER ARTICLE 63.2 OF THE TRIPS AGREEMENT  
TONGA : PROTECTION AGAINST UNFAIR COMPETITION ACT  -  
CHAPTER  17.11 - 2020 REVISED EDITION  
Notifying Member  TONGA 
 
Details of the notified legal text  
 
Title Protection Against Unfair Competition Act – Chapter  17.11 - 2020 Revised 
Edition  
Subject matter  Undisclosed information  
Nature of 
notification  [X] Main dedicated intellectual property law or regulation  
[  ] Other law or regulation  
Link to legal text* https://ip -documents.info/2022/IP/TON/22_4410_00_e.pdf  
Notification status  [  ] First notification  
[  ] Amendment or revision to notified legal text  
[X] Replacement or consolidation of notified legal text(s)  
Previous 
notification(s) 
referred to  IP/N/1/TON /O/1 
Brief description of the notified legal text  
 
An Act to make provision for the protection against unfair competition and for other matters 
connected therewith or incidental thereto.  
 
This Act provides for the protection of undisclosed information. The acquisition or use of secret 
information without the consent of the person lawfully in control of that information and contrary to 
honest commercial practices constitutes an act of unfair competition, for which any person damaged 
or likely to be damaged by this is entitled to remedies. The unfair commerc ial use or disclosure of 
secret tests or other data relating to the pharmaceutical or agricultural chemical products using new 
chemical substances and which have been submitted to a competent authority for marketing 
approval also constitutes an act of unfa ir competition.  
 
Language(s) of 
notified legal text English  
Entry into force  1 September 2008  
Other date    IP/N/1/TON/10 • IP/N/1/TON/U/1  
 
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Notification details  
 
Submission date 
of notification  29 June 2022  
Other information   
Agency or 
authority 
responsible  Ms Distaquaine Tu'ihalamaka  
Chief Executive Officer  
Ministry of Trade and Economic Development  
P.O. Box 110  
Nuku'alofa  
Tonga  
 
Telephone:  +(676) 7400105  
Telefax:  +(676) 23887  
 
E-mail:  ceo@mted.gov.to   
Website:  www.mted.gov.to   
 
 
 
* Links are provided to texts of laws and regulations notified under the TRIPS Agreement in the form 
supplied by the Member concerned; the WTO Secretariat does not endorse or revise their content.  