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Advertisement of
proposal and
opposition.
7. (1) The advertisement of a proposal for amendment
under section 42(3) of the Act shall be made in the Journal,
and notice of any opposition shall be given on Form 43 within
one month from the date of the advertisement, and shall be
accompanied by an unstamped duplicate of the notice and by
a statement in duplicate showing how the proposed conversion would be contrary to section 42(2) of the Act.
(2) The Registrar shall forthwith send the duplicate copies
to the registered proprietor who may within one month from
the receipt of such duplicates, send to the Registrar a counterstatement setting out fully the grounds on which the
opposition is contested and ifhe does so he shall deliver to the
opponent a copy thereof; and the Registrar may thereupon
require or admit evidence directed to the question in issue, and
if so desired by either party he shall, before deciding the
matter, give the parties an opportunity of being heard
thereon.
Conversion
of spccifications and
resulting
registrations.
8. When a proposal for the conversion of a specification in
accordance with regulation 6 of these Regulations has been
advertised and has not been opposed and the time for notice
of opposition has expired, or having been opposed the
opposition has been determined and a conversion allowed, the
Registrar shall make all the entries in the register necessary to
give effect to the conversion in accordance with the proposal
as advertised, or the proposal as amended after opposition or
appeal thereon and published subsequently in the Journal,
and shall enter in the register the date when such entries were
made; and the expression "the expiration of the last registration" shall have regard to the same date in the case of all the
resulting entries for the purpose of determining the next
renewal thereof in accordance with section 23 of the Act as it
had with regard to the registration before conversion.
Documents
9. Subject to any other directions that may be given by the
Registrar, all applications, notices, statements, papers having
representation affixed, or other documents authorised or
required by the Act or these Regulations to be made, left with
or sent to the Registrar shall be upon foolscap paper and,
except in the case of statutory declarations and affidavits, on
one side only, of a size of approximately thirteen inches by
eight inches and shall have on the left hand part thereof a
margin of not less than one inch and a half.
Size, etc. of
documents.