38. Special provisions as to vessels, aircraft and land vehicles of convention countries 39. Register to be evidence 40. Certificates of registrar to be prima facie evidence 41. Certification of validity 42. Appeal to court 43. Proclamations as to convention countries 44. Registration of design where application for protection has been made in convention country 45. Extension of time for applications in certain cases 46. Minister may require designs to be kept secret in certain circumstances 47. Penalties for making false entries in register, or making, producing or tendering false entries or copies 48. Penalties for making false statements for purpose of deceiving or influencing registrar or officer 49. Penalties for certain false representations 50. Documents may be sent by post 51. Address for service 52. Calculation of periods of time 53. Condonation or correction of irregularities in procedure 54. R egulations 55. Repeal of laws 56. Short title and commencement 1. Definitions. (1) In this Act, unless the context otherwise indicates— “aesthetic design” means any design applied to any article, whether for the pattern or the shape or the configuration or the ornamentation thereof, or for any two or more of those purposes, and by whatever means it is applied, having features which appeal to and are judged solely by the eye, irrespective of the aesthetic quality thereof; “agent” means a patent agent referred to in section 20 of the Patents Act, 1978 (Act No. 57 of 1978), or an attorney; “applicant” includes the legal representative of a deceased applicant or of an applicant who is a person under legal disability; “article” means any article of manufacture and includes a part of such article if manufactured separately; “cessionary” includes the personal representative of a cessionary, and any reference to the cessionary of any person shall be construed as including a reference to the cessionary of the personal representative of that person; “convention country” means any country or group of countries in respect of which there is in force a proclamation in terms of section 43 declaring such country or group of countries to be a convention country or convention countries for the purposes of this Act; “court”, in relation to any matter, means the division of the Supreme Court of South Africa having jurisdiction in respect of that matter;