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SOUTH AFRICA
DISCRETIONARY POWERS
(Section 27)
46.–
(1) Where under these regulations any person is required to do any act or thing or to sign any
document or to make any affidavit on behalf of himself or of any body corporate or any document or
evidence is required to be produced to or left with the Registrar or at the Office and it is shown to the
satisfaction of the Registrar that from any reasonable cause such person is unable to do such act or thing or to
sign such document or make such affidavit or that such document or evidence cannot be produced or left as
aforesaid, it shall be lawful for the Registrar and upon the production of such other evidence and subject to
such terms as he may think fit to dispense with any such act or thing, document, affidavit or evidence.
(2) Any person may apply to the Registrar for a hearing within three months of any decision of the
Registrar or such further time as the Registrar may allow, and if he fails to do so the decision of the Registrar
shall be final.
APPEALS OR APPLICATION TO COURT
(Sections 6(3), 33 and 35)
47.–
(1)
(a) When any person objects to any order or decision of the Registrar he may apply, within two
months of the date of the Registrar’s order or decision or such further time as the Registrar may
allow, on Form RF 4 requiring the Registrar to state in writing the grounds of his decision and the
data used by him in arriving thereat. The date of such statement shall be deemed to be the date
of the Registrar’s order or decision for the purpose of appeal.
(b) The consents by the parties to any appeal to have the appeal heard by the Appellate Division of
the Supreme Court in terms of section 33(5) of the Act shall be on Form RF 7 (in duplicate) and
shall be lodged with the Registrar before an appeal is noted in such division.
(2) In any case in which an application is made under section 35 of the Act, the applicant shall give
notice of such application to the Registrar on Form RF 4 accompanied by a copy of the application to the
Court.
WITHDRAWAL OF APPEALS
(Section 6(5))
48. Where under the provisions of section 6(5) of the Act an appellant is entitled to withdraw his
appeal, such withdrawal shall be effected by notice given to the Registrar and to the other parties, if any, to
such appeal within one month after the leave to include further grounds of objection referred to in that section
has been obtained.
APPLICATIONS TO AND ORDERS OF THE COURT
49.–
(1) Where an order has been made by the Court in any case under the Act, the person in whose
favour such order has been made or such one of them, if more than one, as the Registrar may direct, shall
forthwith leave at the Office an office copy of such order together with Form RF 4. The register may, if
necessary, thereupon be rectified or altered by the Registrar.
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