PART X MISCELLANEOUS 52. Where by this Act any act has to be done by or to any person in connection with a design or any procedure relating thereto, the act may under and in accordance with the regulations or, in particular cases, by special leave of the Registrar, be done by or to an agent of that person duly authorised in the prescribed manner. Recognition of agents 53. (1) Any application, notice or document authorised or required Lodging and under this Act to be lodged, made or given at the Designs Office or to authentication the Registrar or to any other person may be delivered by hand or sent by of documents registered post. (2) No authentication shall be required in respect of any document lodged in the Designs Office under the provisions of this Act. (As amended by Act No. 16 of 1980) 54. (1) Where under the provisions of this Act- (a) a fee is payable in respect of the performance of any act by the Registrar, the Registrar shall not perform that act until the fee has been paid; (b) a fee is payable in respect of the doing of any act by any person other than the Registrar, the act shall be deemed not to have been done until the fee has been paid; or (c) a fee is payable in respect of the lodging of a document, the document shall be deemed not to have been lodged until the fee has been paid. (2) All fees shall be paid at the Designs Office in such manner as the Registrar, with the approval of the Minister, may accept. Provisions as to fees