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(2) Any registered proprietor or registered user of a trade mark, or any person about to be registered as such may, if he so desires, give upon a franked Form TM-No. 38 an address for service for entry in the register, and such address may be entered by the Registrar.
(3) All applications on Form TM-No. 38 under this rule shall be signed by the applicant for registration or the registered proprietor or registered user, as the case may be, or by an agent expressly authorized by him for the purpose of such an applica tion, unless in exceptional circumstances the Registrar otherwise allows.
(4) In any case in which no address for service is entered in the register, the Registrar may treat the trade or business address of the registered proprietor or registered user as therein entered as his address for service for all purposes connected with the registration.
(5) Any written communication addressed to a party or person as aforesaid at an address given by him, or treated by the Registrar, as his address for service shall be deemed to be properly addressed.
(6) The Registrar, at any time that a doubt arises as to the continued availability of an address for service entered in the register, may request the person for whom it is entered, by letter addressed to his trade or business address in the register, to con- firm the address for service, and if within three months of making such a request the Registrar receives no confirmation of that address, he may strike it off the register.
101. (1) A registered proprietor or registered user of a trade mark whose trade or business address is changed so that the entry in the register is rendered incorrect shall forthwith request the Registrar on a franked Form TM-No, 32 to make the appropriate alteration of the address in the register, and the Registrar shall alter the register accordingly if he is satisfied in the matter.
(2) A registered proprietor or registered user of a trade mark whose address for service in the Calony entered in the register is changed, whether by discontinuance of the entered address or otherwise, so that the entry in the register is rendered incorrect, shall forthwith request the Registrar on a franked Form TM-No. 38 to make the appropriate alteration of the address in the register, and the Registrar shall alter the register accordingly if he is satisfied in the matter.
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(3) A registered proprietor or registered user of a trade mark whose registered trade or business address or address for service is altered by a public authority, so that the changed address designates the same premises as before, may make the aforesaid request to the Registrar on Form TM-No. 32 or TM-No. 38, as the case may be, without payment of fee and if he does so he shall leave therewith a certificate of the alteration given by the authority. If the Registrar is satisfied as to the facts of the case, he shall alter the register accordingly,
(4) In case of the alteration of the address of a person entered in the register as the address of service of more than one registered proprietor or registered user of trade marks, the Registrar may, on proof that the said address is the address of the applicant and if satisfied that it is just to do so, accept an application from the person on a franked or unfranked Form TM-No. 38 amended so as to suit the case for the appropriate alteration of the entries of his address as the address for service in the several registra- tions, particulars of which shall be given in the Form, and may alter the entries accordingly.
(5) All applications under this rule on Form TM-No. 38 shall be signed by the registered proprietor or the registered user, as the case may be, or by an agent expressly authorized by him for the purpose of such an application, unless in exceptional cir- cumstances the Registrar otherwise allows.
Agents.
102. (1) Except as otherwise required by these rules, any Agency. application, request or notice which is required or permitted by The Ordinance or these rules to be made or given to the Registrar, and all other communications between an applicant or a person making such a request or giving such a notice and the Registrar, and between the registered proprietor or the registered user of a- trade mark and the Registrar or any other person, may be signed, made or given by or through an agent.
(2) Any such applicant, person making request or giving notice, proprietor, or registered user may appoint an agent to act for him in any proceeding or matter before or affecting the Registrar under the Ordinance and these rules by signing and sending to the Registrar an authority to that effect in the Form