11. FEES. -(1) The fees to be paid in respect of applications, oppositions, registration and other matters under the Act and the rules shall be those specified in Schedule 1, hereinafter referred to as the prescribed fees.
(2) Mere in respect of any matter a fee is required to be paid under the rules, the form or the application or the request or the petition, therefore, shall be accompanied by the prescribed fee.
(3) Fees may be paid in cash or sent by money order addressed to the Registrar of Trade Marks or by postal order or by a bank draft issued by, or by a cheque drawn on and guaranteed, by a scheduled bank as defined in the Reserve Bank of India Act, 1934 (2 of 1934) or at the discretion of the Registrar by a cheque drawn on such bank even though not so guaranteed, and if sent through post shall be deemed to have been paid at the time when the money order or the properly addressed and prepaid letter containing the postal order, or bank draft or cheque would be delivered in the ordinary course of post.
(4) Postal orders shall be crossed and made payable to the Registrar at the appropriate office of the Trade Marks Registry and bank drafts and cheques shall also be similarly crossed and made payable to the Registrar but they shall be drawn on a scheduled bank at the place where the appropriate office of the Trade Marks Registry is situate.
(5) Where a fee is payable in respect of the filing of a document, the date on which the entire fee is paid shall be deemed to be the date of filing of the document.
(6) Where any fee paid by a party is ordered to be returned by the Registrar under any of the provisions of the Act or the rules the amount may be refunded by money order in which event money order commission shall be deductible from such amount.
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