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(b) 8. 9. such other particulars as may be prescribed. (2) Copies of all deeds, agreements, licences and other documents affecting any registered design or application for the registration of a design which are required to be recorded in the register, shall be supplied to the registrar in the prescribed manner for filing in the designs office. (3) The registrar shall maintain at the designs office such indexes in relation to particulars entered in the register in terms of subsection (1) as may be prescribed. (4) The register kept in terms of section 9 (1) of the repealed Act shall be incorporated with and form part of the register to be kept under this section, and all copies of deeds, agreements, licences and other documents supplied to the registrar in terms of section 9 of the repealed Act shall be deemed to have been supplied to the registrar in terms of subsection (2). (5) The register shall consist of a Part A with regard to aesthetic designs and a Part F with regard to functional designs. (6) The existing register shall be deemed to form part of Part A of the register. Inspection of register. (1) Subject to the provisions of this Act, the register or any document lodged at the designs office shall, on payment of the prescribed fee, be open to inspection by the public during the prescribed hours. (2) The right of inspection conferred by subsection (1) shall not include the right to make copies of or take extracts from the register or any document referred to in that subsection by mechanical means: Provided that the registrar may, where owing to circumstances beyond his control copies of any document required in terms of section 9 cannot be furnished without undue delay, permit any person to make such copies by mechanical means. Registrar to furnish information from register on request. The registrar shall, at the request of any person and on payment of the prescribed fee, furnish copies of any documents lodged at the designs office and which are open to public inspection, or particulars from the register, or furnish a certificate in respect thereof. 10. Publication in journal. The registrar shall arrange for the publication in the journal of such details in respect of designs as he considers desirable or which must be published therein in terms of this Act. 11. Powers of registrar. (1) The registrar may, for the purposes of this Act—

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