IPIN/IINGA/T/2 Page 33 Application for hearing. 107. An application for a hearing shall be made within one month from the date of notification by the Registrar of any objection to an application or the date of any other indication that he proposes to exercise a discretionary power. Notice of hearing. 108. (1) Upon receiving such application the Registrar shall give the person applying, ten days notice of a time when he may be heard. (2) Within five days from the date when such notice would be delivered in the ordinary course of post, the person applying shall notify the Registrar whether or not he in tends to be heard on the matter. Hearing to be in public. 109. The hearing before the Registrar of any dispute between two or more parties relating· to any matter in connection with a registered trade mark or an application to register a trade mark shall be in public unless the Registrar, after consultation with those parties to the dispute who are represented at the hearing, otherwise directs. Notice of decision. 110. The decision of the Registrar in the exercise of any such discretionary power as aforesaid shall be notified to the person affected. Power to dispense with Evidence Dispensing with evidence. 111. Where under these Regulations any person is required to do any act or thing or to sign any document, or to make any declaration on behalf of himself or of any body corporate, or any document or evidence is required to be produced or left with the Registrar or at the office and it is shown to the satisfaction of the Registrar that from any reasonable cause such person is unable to do such act or thing, or to sign such document, or to make such declaration or that such declaration, or that such document or evidence cannot be produced or left as aforesaid, it shall be lawful for the Registrar upon the production of such other evidence, and subject to such terms as he may think fit, to dispense with any such act or thing, signature, declaration, document or evidence. Amendments 112. Any document or drawing or other representation of Amendment a trade mark may be amended and any irregularity in pro- d~cuments. cedure which in the opinion of the Registrar may be excused without detriment to the interests of any person may be corrected, if the Registrar thinks fit, and on such terms as he may direct.