IP/N/lIKENfT/l Page 52 [Subsidiary] (3) Two or more registrations of a trade mark in respect of goods falling within the same class of the Third Schedule, haying the same date of registration, may be amalgamated upon conversion in accord­ ance with this rule. Advertisement of proposal. 7. (1) The advertisement of a proposal for amendment under subsection (3) of sec'tion 39 of .the Act shall be made in the Gazette, and a notice of any opposition shall be given in form TM 44 within one month from the date of the advertisement, and shall be accompanied by a duplicate of the notice and by ,a statement in dupli­ cate showing how the proposed amendment would be contrary to subsection (2) of that section. (2) The Registrar shall forthwith send the duplicate copies to tbe registered proprietor who may, within one month from the receipt of such duplicates, send to the Registrar a counter-statement setting out fully the grounds on which the opposition is contested and If he does so he shall deliver to the opponent a copy thereof. (3) The Registrar may thereupon require or admit evidence directed to the questions in issue, and if so desired by either party he shall, before deciding the matter, give the parties an opportunity of being heard thereon. Con version of specifications. 8. (1) When a proposal for the conversion of a specification in accordance with rule 6 has been advertised and has not been opposed.' and the time for notice of opposition has expired, or having been opposed the opposition has been determined and a conversion allowed, nhe Registrar shall make all the entries in the register necessary to give effect to the conversion in accordance with the proposal as advertised, or the proposal as amended after opposition or appeal thereon and published subsequently in the Gazette. and shall enter in the register the date when such entries were made. (2) The expression "the expiration of the last registration" shall have regard to the same date in the case of all the resulting entries for the purpose of determining the next renewal thereof in accordance with section 23 of the Act as it had 'with regard to the registration before conversion. Documents Size, etc., of documents. Signature of documents by partnerships, companies and associations. 9. Subject to any other directions that may be given by the Registrar, all applications, notices, counter-statements, papers baving representations affixed or other documents authorized or required by the Act or these Rules to be 'made, left or sent, a t or 10 the office or with or to the Registrar or the court, shall ·be on foolscap paper of a size approximately 13 inches by 8 inches, and shall have on the left­ hand part thereof a margin of not less than 1t inches. 10. (1) A document purporting to be signed for or on behalf of a partnership shall contain the names of all the partners in full arid shall be signed by all the partners or by any qualified partner stating that he signs on behalf of the partnership, or by any other person who satisfies the Registrar that he is authorized to sign the document. (2) A document purporting to be signed for or on behalf of a body corporate shall be signed by a director or by the secretary' or other principal officer of the body corporate, or by any other person who satisfies the Registrar that he is authorized to sign the document. 6 of 86