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Trade Marks Rules
[1989 Ed.
[Subsidiary]
87. Application for hearing
An application for a hearing shall be made within 1 month from the date of the notification by the Registrar of any objection to an application or the date of any other indication that he proposes to exercise a discretionary power.
88. Notice of hearing
Upon receiving such an application the Registrar shall send by post to the person applying 10 days' notice of a time when he may be heard. Within 5 days from the date when such notice would be delivered in the ordinary course of post the person applying shall notify the Registrar whether or not he intends to be heard on the subject.
89. Notification of decision
The decision of the Registrar in the exercise of any such discretionary power as aforesaid shall be notified to the person affected.
POWER TO DISPENSE WITH EVIDENCE, ETC.
(L.N. 28 of 1964)
90. Dispensing with evidence, etc.
Where under these rules any person is required to do any act or thing, or to sign any document, or to make any declaration on behalf of himself or of any body corporate, or any document or evidence is required to be produced to or left with the Registrar, and it is shown to the satisfaction of the Registrar that from any reasonable cause such person is unable to do any such act or thing, or to sign such document, or to make such declaration, or that such document or evidence cannot be produced or left as aforesaid, it shall be lawful for the Registrar, upon the production of such other evidence, and subject to such terms as he may think fit, to dispense with any such act or thing, signature, declaration, document or evidence.
EXTENSION OF TIME
91. Extension of time
If in any particular case the Registrar is satisfied that the circumstances are such as to justify an extension of the time for doing any act or taking any proceeding under these rules, not being a time expressly provided in the Ordinance or prescribed by rule 45(2) or 49(2), he may extend the time for so
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