The Minister may make regulations—
| (a) |
with the concurrence of the Minister of Finance, prescribing the matters in respect of which fees shall be payable, and the tariff of such fees; |
| (b) |
prescribing the tariff of fees which shall be allowed on taxation in connection with proceedings before the registrar or the commissioner; |
| (c) |
prescribing the procedure in any proceedings before the registrar or the commissioner; |
| (d) |
prescribing the service of notices and other documents required in terms of this Act to be served in connection with proceedings before the registrar or the commissioner; |
| (e) |
providing for the conduct and administration of the patent office, including the keeping and preservation of any records in the patent office, the removal from such office and preservation in any other place of such records, and as to the circumstances in which any such records may be destroyed; |
| (f) |
prescribing the contents of any application, notice or form provided for in this Act; |
| (g) |
as to any other matter required or permitted by this Act to be prescribed by regulation; and generally, as to any matter which he or she considers necessary or expedient to prescribe in order to carry out, or give effect to, the Patent Cooperation Treaty or that the purposes of this Act may be achieved. |
[Section 91 amended by section 47 of Act No. 38 of 1997.]
Statistics Act, 1999
