Fees
37. (1) The fees to be paid under the Act shall be the fees specified in Schedule 2 to these regulations and shall be payable as follows:
(a) By affixing revenue stamps to any document concerned, which stamps may be cancelled by a receiver of revenue or the Registrar; or
(b) by impressing a stamp on any document concerned by means of a die approved by the Secretary for Inland Revenue; or
(c) in such other manner as the Registrar may direct.
(2) The Registrar may refuse to accept any notice or documents lodged with or served on him if not stamped in accordance with Schedule 2, and notices or documents so refused shall not be admissible in any proceedings until duly stamped in accordance with the fees prescribed.
Service of documents
38. (1) Any notice or other document required by these regulations to be served on or sent to any person may be sent to him by pre-paid post at his address for service or, where no address for service has been given, at his registered office, principal place of business or last-known address, and every notice or other document required to be served on or sent to the Tribunal may be sent by pre-paid post to the Registrar at the Patents Office, Pretoria.
(2) Any notice or other document required to be served on a licensing body or organisation which is not a body corporate may be sent to the secretary, manager or other similar officer.
(3) The Tribunal may direct that service of any notice or other document be dispensed with or effected otherwise than in the manner provided by these regulations.
Time
39. (1) Whenever any time is specified by these regulations within which any act or thing is to be done, such time may be abridged by agreement, or the registrar or the Commissioner, as the case may be, may extend such time either before or after its expiry.
(2) If the last day for the doing of any act falls on a day on which the office is closed and by reason thereof the act cannot be done on that day, such act may be done on the next day on which the office is open.
