PART X
MISCELLANEOUS
52. Where by this Act any act has to be done by or to any person in
connection with a design or any procedure relating thereto, the act may
under and in accordance with the regulations or, in particular cases, by
special leave of the Registrar, be done by or to an agent of that person
duly authorised in the prescribed manner.
Recognition of
agents
53. (1) Any application, notice or document authorised or required
Lodging and
under this Act to be lodged, made or given at the Designs Office or to
authentication
the Registrar or to any other person may be delivered by hand or sent by of documents
registered post.
(2) No authentication shall be required in respect of any document
lodged in the Designs Office under the provisions of this Act.
(As amended by Act No. 16 of 1980)
54. (1) Where under the provisions of this Act-
(a)
a fee is payable in respect of the performance of any act by the
Registrar, the Registrar shall not perform that act until the fee has been
paid;
(b)
a fee is payable in respect of the doing of any act by any person
other than the Registrar, the act shall be deemed not to have been done
until the fee has been paid; or
(c)
a fee is payable in respect of the lodging of a document, the
document shall be deemed not to have been lodged until the fee has been
paid.
(2) All fees shall be paid at the Designs Office in such manner as the
Registrar, with the approval of the Minister, may accept.
Provisions as to
fees