(2) Any such applicant, person making request or giving notice, or
proprietor 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 Form No. 30 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 proceedings 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 proceedings 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 or other person.
(3) The Registrar shall not be bound to recognise as such agent any
person(a)
who has been proved to him to have been guilty of conduct
discreditable to an agent; or
(b)
who has been convicted of a criminal offence and sentenced to
imprisonment without the option of a fine; or
(c)
who has been suspended from practice as a legal practitioner or
whose name has been struck off the roll of legal practitioners; or
(d)
who has been adjudged guilty of conduct discreditable to a
patent agent; or
(e)
who has been suspended from practice as a patent agent, or
whose name has been erased from the register of patent agents kept
under the provisions of the Patents Act, and not subsequently restored.
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41. (1) A document purporting to be signed for or on behalf of a
Signature of
partnership shall contain the names of all the partners in full and may be documents
signed by a partner or by any other person who satisfies the Registrar
that he is authorised to sign the document.
(2) A document purporting to be signed for or on behalf of a body
corporate shall be signed by a director or by the secretary or other