No. 12 Trade and Service Marks 1986 11 (3) The application for the registration of a trade or service mark under this section shall be made in the same manner as is required in the case of any ordinary application under this Act subject to any other requirements which may be prescribed. 23.-(1) The applicant shall, at the direction of the Registrar, furnish him within the prescribed time limit, with the date and number of any application for a trade or service mark or registration filed with a national industrial property office of another country or with a regional industrial property office having comparable requirements for registration (foreign application) relating to the same or essentially the same trade or service mark as that in the application filed with the Registrar. (2) The applicant shall, at the direction of the Registrar furnish him within the prescribed time limit with the following documents relating to one of the foreign applications or registrations referred to in subsection (1)(a) a copy of any communication received by the applicant concerning the results of any search or examination carried out in respect of the foreign application; (b) a copy of the trade or service mark as registered; and (c) a copy of any final decision rejecting the foreign application or refusing the registration requested in the foreign application or invalidating the foreign registration. (3) The documents furnished under this section shall merely serve the purpose of facilitating the examination of the application filed with the Registrar or of the Registration entered in the registrar on the basis of that application. (4) The applicant shall have the right to submit comments on the documents furnished under this section. Information as to foreign application 24.-(1) Where the relations between two or more persons interested in a trade or service mark are such that only one of them is entitled between himself and the other or others to use it except(i) on behalf of both or all of them; or (ii) in relation to an article or service with both or all of them are connected in the course of trade or business, those persons may be registered as joint proprietors of the trade or service mark, and this Act shall have effect in relation to any rights to the use of the trade or service mark vested in those persons as if those rights bad been vested in a single person. (2) Subject as aforesaid nothing in this Act shall authorize the registration of two or more persons who use a trade or service mark independently, or propose so to use it, as joint proprietors thereof. Joint as proprietors 25.-(1) Where the proprietors of a trade or service mark claims to be entitled to the exclusive use of any part thereof separately, he may apply to register the whole and any such parts as separate trade or service marks. Each separate trade or service mark shall satisfy all the conditions of an Registration of parts and of series of trade and service marks