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Power to Award Costs.
11. In all proceedings before the Registrar under this Act, the Registrar shall have the power
to award to any party such costs as he may consider reasonable and to direct how arid by
which parties they ate to be paid, and any such award may be enforced in the same manner
as a judgement or order of the HIgh Court.
Fees.
12.
Where under this Act or the Regulations
(a) a fee is payable in respect of the performance of any act by the Registrar. the
Registrar shall not perform that act until the fee has been paid; or
(b) a fee is payable in respect of the doing of any act by any person other than the
Registrar, the act shall be deemed not to have been done until the fee has been
paid; or
(c) a fee is payable in respect of the lodging of a document, .the document shall be
deemed not to have been lodged until the fee has been paid.
Publication in the Gazet teo
13.
A nything required to be published under this Act or the Regulations shall be published
in the Gazette.
Regulations.
14. (1) The Minister may make Regulations, not inconsistent with this Act, prescribing
anything which under this Act .is to be prescribed and generally for the better carrying out of
the objects and purposes of this Act or to give force or effect to its provisions or for its better
administration.
(2) Without prejudice to the generality of .subsection (1), Regulations made by the
Minister rn.ay provide for
(a) regulating the practice under this Act, including the service of documents:
(b) making or requiring copies of trade marks and other documents;
(c) regulating the publishing and selling or distributing of copies of trade marks
and other documents;
(d) the fees which shall be payable in respect of any application, registration or any
other matter under this Act.
PART III
ACQUISITION OF THE EXCLUSIVE RIGHT T·O l\. TRADE 1'v1.A.RK
Acquisition of the Exclusive Right.
15. (1) The exclusive right to the use of a trade mark, as defined in section 29, shall be
acquired by registration in accordance with this Act.
(2) Registration of a trade mark shall only be granted to a person \VDO has fulfilled the
conditions .for registration.
Classification of Registration.
16. Trade Marks shallbe registered in respect of particular goods or services in one or
more classes of the International Classification and any question arising as to the class
within which any goods or services fall shall be determined by the Registrar.iwhcse decision
shall be final and shall not be questioned in any Court.