Rule 10

10. Fees. –

(1) The fees to be paid in respect of applications, oppositions, registration, renewal, expedited processing of the application or any other matters under the Act and the Rules shall be those as specified in the First Schedule.

(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 thereof, it shall be accompanied by the prescribed fee.

(3) Fees may be paid electronically or in cash or sent by money order addressed to the Registrar or by a bank draft issued or by a banker’s 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 banker’s cheque is received in the office.

(4) Bank drafts and banker’s cheque shall be crossed and made payable to the Registrar at the appropriate office of the Trade Marks Registry and 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 filing of a document and where the document is filed without fee or with an insufficient fee, such document shall be deemed not to have been filed for the purposes of any proceedings under these rules.