Click Here & Upgrade PDF Complete Expanded Features Unlimited Pages Documents (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 sub-regulation (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. (7) CIPRO may suspend or terminate electronic services at any time without incurring any liability for doing so: Provided that proper notice of such suspension or termination shall be given and that such suspension or termination will not effect existing rights of any person who has been using such electronic services.”. CHAPTER I PROCEDURE IN THE PATENT OFFICE (regs 2-67) 2. F ees The fees to be paid in terms of the Act shall be the fees specified in Schedule 1 to these regulations and shall be payable in such manner as the registrar may direct. 3. F orms The forms referred to in these regulations are the forms contained in Schedule 2 hereto and such forms, whether in paper form or in any electronic form authorized by the registrar for electronic services, shall be used substantially in the manner prescribed for those cases to which they apply, but may be modified or amended with the approval of the registrar provided that such modifications or amendments shall not substantially affect their identity. 4. The register and indices The registrar shall cause to be entered in the register the particulars called for in Form P2. 5. The registrar shall maintain an alphabetical index of the names of all applicants for patents, inventors and patentees on the register and may also maintain an alphabetical index of the names of all assignees of patents or patent applications, registered licensees and hypothec holders on the register.