c. At his residence or place of business or employment, to some responsible person there residing or employed. Registered Designs Registered Designs Cap. 49:05 Registered Designs Regulations [Subsidiary] 38. Any notice, application or other document sent to the Office by post shall not be deemed to have Lodging of documents been given, made or lodged until it is actually received in the Office. 39. 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. Power of Registrar to fix time and place of proceedings 40. 41. Any application, request or notice which is required or permitted by the Act or these Regulations to be made or given to the Registrar, and all other communications between an applicant or a person making such request or giving such notice and the Registrar, and between the registered proprietor of a design and the Registrar or any other person, may be signed, made or given by or through an agent. (2) Any such applicant, person making request or giving notice, or proprietor may appoint an agent to act for him in any proceedings or matter before or affecting the Registrar under the Act and these Regulations by signing and sending to the Registrar an authority to that effect in form No. 30 or in such other written form as the Registrar may deem sufficient. In case of such appointment, service upon the agent of any document relating to the proceedings or matter shall be deemed to be service upon the person so appointing him, all communications directed to be made to such person in respect of the proceedings or matter may be addressed to such agent, and all attendances upon the Registrar relating thereto may be made by or through such agent. In any particular case the Registrar may require the personal signature or presence of an applicant, proprietor or other person. (3) The Registrar shall not be bound to recognize as such agent any person (a) Who has been proved to him to have been guilty of conduct discreditable to an agent; or (b) Who has been convicted of a criminal offence and sentenced to imprisonment without the option of a fine; or (c) Who has been suspended form practice as a legal practitioner or whose name has been struck off a roll of legal practitioners whether in Malawi or elsewhere; or (d) Who has been adjudged guilty of conduct discreditable to a patent agent; or (e) Who has been suspended fro practice as a patent agent or whose name has been erased from the register of patent agents kept under the Patents Act and not subsequently restored. Agency Cap. 49:02 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 satisfies the Signature of documents Registrar that he is authorized to sign the document. 38