Trade Marks Act 1998 · 2020 Revised Edition · Part 11 · Miscellaneous and General Provisions
108. Power to make rules
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The Minister may make rules —
for any purpose for which rules are authorised or required to be made under this Act;
for prescribing matters authorised or required by this Act to be prescribed;
for prescribing matters necessary or convenient to be prescribed for carrying out or giving effect to this Act;
for prescribing matters necessary or convenient to be prescribed for the conduct of any proceedings or other matter before the Registrar.
Without limiting subsection (1), the rules may make provision —
as to the practice and procedure of any proceedings or other matter before the Registrar;
as to the manner of filing of applications or other documents;
requiring persons to make such statutory declarations as may be prescribed in support of any application, notice or request;
requiring and regulating the translation of documents and the filing and authentication of any translation;
as to the service of documents;
to enable the Registrar to publish —
an application to rectify an error or omission in the register; and
a request to amend an application, a notice or other document,and to provide for the making of objections to the rectification or amendment by a person claiming to be affected by it;
authorising the rectification of irregularities of procedure;
prescribing time limits for anything required to be done in connection with any proceedings under this Act;
for the extension of any time limit which has been prescribed, or which the Registrar has specified, and which has not expired;
as to the giving of evidence in proceedings before the Registrar under this Act by affidavit or statutory declaration; (ia)for the continued processing of an application that is treated as withdrawn; and
for the reinstatement of —
[Deleted by Act 7 of 2022 wef 26/05/2022]
any right which has been abrogated, or thing which has ceased to be in force or to exist, by reason of a failure to comply with any time limit which has been prescribed or which the Registrar has specified,and the conditions for such reinstatement.