11. Fees.- (1) The fees to be paid in respect of applications, oppositions, registration, renewal, other expedited examination or reports and any other matters under the Act and the rules shall be those specified in the First Schedule, hereinafter referred to as the prescribed fees. (2) Where in respect of any matter, a fee is required to be paid under the rules, the form or the application or the request of 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 or by a bank draft issued or by a cheque drawn on a scheduled bank at the place where the appropriate office of the Trade Marks Registry is situated and if sent through post, shall be deemed to have been paid at the time when the money order or the properly addressed bank draft or cheque would be delivered in the ordinary course of post. (4) Bank drafts and cheques shall be crossed and made payable to the Registrar at the appropriate office of the Trade Marks Registry and these shall be drawn on a scheduled bank at the place where the appropriate office of the Trade Marks Registry is situate. (5) Subject to the provisions contained in sub-rule 19 of rule 25, where a fee is payable in respect of filing of a document and where the document is filed without fee or with insufficient fee, such document shall be deemed not to have been filed for the purposes of any proceedings under these rules. (6) The Registrar may, after informing the public in the Journal, make available electronic fee transfer facilities subject to such guideline and instructions as may be specified on that behalf. |