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(3) All applications on Form 33 under this regulation 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 authorised by him for the purpose of such an
application, 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 confirm 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.
Agents
16. (1) Except as otherwise required by these Regulations,
any application, request or notice which is required or
permitted by the Act or these Regulations 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 a 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 proceedings or matter before or. affecting
the Registrar under the Act and these Regulations by signing
and sending to the Registrar an authority to that effect in the
Form I or in such other written form as the Registrar may
deem sufficient. In case of such appointment, service upon the
agent of any document relating to the proceeding or matter
shall be deemed to be service upon the person so appointing
him, all communications directed to be made to such person
in respect of the proceeding or matter may be addressed to
such agent, and all attendances upon the Registrar relating
thereto may be made by or through such .agent. In any
particular case the Registrar may require the personal
signature or presence of an applicant, opponent, proprietor,
registered user or other person.
Agents.