LAWS OF MALAWI Patents (Subsidiary) (2) Cap. 49:02 Patents Regulations (b) to such person personally, or to his duly authorized agent; or (c) at his residence or place of business or employment, to some responsible person there residing or employed. Service effected by any person in accordance with this regulation shall be proved by a certificate made in form No. 47 and such certificate shall be filed with the Registrar. 80. Any notice, application or other document sent to the Office by post shall not be deemed to have been given, made or lodged until it is actually received in the Office. 81. The Registrar may in any proceedings held before him decide the hours, times and places at which he will sit and he may adjourn any proceedings for such time and to such place as he may think fit. 82. (1) Any application, request or notice which is required or permitted under this Act to be made or given to the Registrar, and all other communications between an applicant or a person making a request or giving a notice and the Registrar, and between the patentee and the Registrar or any other person, may be signed, made or given by or through an agent: Lodging documents. of Power of Registrar to fix time and place of proceedings. Agency. Provided that the Registrar is satisfied that the agent has been duly authorized so to act on behalf of such applicant, person or patentee. (2) No power of attorney or any form of authorization need be filed at the office or exhibited to the Registrar in connection with any matter or proceeding under these Regulations unless the Registrar otherwise directs. 83. The Registrar may refuse to recognize as agent in respect of any proceedings under this Act a person who neither resides nor maintains a place of business in Malawi. 84. (1) A document purporting to be signed for or on behalf of a partnership shall contain the names of all the partners in full and may be signed by a partner, or by any other person who satisfied the Registrar that he is authorized to sign the document. (2) 85. Refusal to recognize agent. 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 satisfied the Registrar that he is authorized to sign the document. Any document lodged in any proceedings before the Registrar may, if the Registrar thinks fit, be amended, and any irregularity in procedure may be rectified on such terms as he may direct. 111 Amendment documents. of