of which a trade mark is registered or proposed to be registered.
1A. 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 customer entering his access code on the
CIPRO system and any record lodged after the CIPRO customer 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
subregulation (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.
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