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'specimen' means an article with a design applied to it; and
'the Act' means the Designs Act, 1993 (Act 195 of 1993).
1A.
2.
Electronic services
(1)
The Registrar may direct by notice in the Gazette that any requirement under the
Act or these regulations, including requirements in respect of information, records
and payment, may or must be satisfied in electronic form, subject to the
provisions of the operational requirements.
(2)
The Registrar must publish operational requirements on the CIPRO portal setting
out the requirements, processes and procedures in respect of all or certain
electronic services, including (a)
registration procedures;
(b)
identification, authentication and verification;
(c)
form and format of records;
(d)
manner and form of payment;
(e)
information security requirements; and
(f)
record retention requirements.
(3)
The operational requirements may be published in different forms over different
parts of the CIPRO portal.
(4)
Unless another form of electronic signature is specified in the operating
requirements, any signature requirement under the Act or these regulations in
respect of a record to be accessed from or lodged with CIPRO is satisfied by the
CIPRO user entering his access code on the CIPRO system and any record
lodged after the CIPRO user having entered the access code shall be deemed to
have been duly signed by the person whose signature is required under the Act
or these regulations for purposes of such record.
(5)
Where any form under the Act or regulations makes provision for a signature and
such form is deemed to be signed as provided for in sub-regulation (4), it shall
not be necessary to have recorded on such form that it had been signed.
(6)
Unless CIPRO receives prior written notification from the holder of an access
code to disable such access code, CIPRO shall be entitled to accept that the
person using electronic services is the person to whom the access code was
issued or such person’s duly authorized representative acting within the scope of
such person’s authority.
(7)
CIPRO may suspend or terminate electronic services at any time without
incurring any liability for doing so: Provided that proper notice of such suspension
or termination shall be given and that such suspension or termination will not
effect existing rights of any person who has been using such electronic services.”.
Office hours
(1)
The office shall be open to the public from Mondays to Fridays from 08:00 to
15:00, except on the following days:
(a)
All days proclaimed public holidays in terms of any law; and